Union meets JPS today
Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2009 | 9:35 AM
All is set for a meeting this afternoon between the unions representing workers at the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) and a senior Government official.
It’s not clear if the management of the JPS will also be at the meeting.
Today’s meeting is the latest in a series of efforts to resolve an impasse between JPS workers and the company’s management.
The unions are claiming that under a reclassification exercise, the JPS owes some workers overtime and redundancy monies for the period 2001 to 2007.
However, the light and power company is insisting that the money has been paid.
On Friday, the Labour Ministry obtained a 30-day Supreme Court injunction to prevent the unions from taking any action to disrupt electricity supplies.