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MP Wescot: “Time to renegotiate the cuts in workers’ benefits comprehensively, otherwise we are shooting ourselves in the foot.”

September 19, 2022

MP Wescot: “Time to renegotiate the cuts in workers’ benefits comprehensively, otherwise we are shooting ourselves in the foot.”
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PHILIPSBURG:--- The government is expecting that its proposal of law to sanction its unlawful act of paying out vacation allowance will be passed by Parliament on Monday.
“As can be recalled the government paid out vacation allowance in June to civil servants. There is currently a law in place that cancels the vacation allowance payment, as well as reduces vacation days and overtime payments”, MP Wescot Williams explains.

The government has found all types of arguments to cover up the fact that it acted against the law, but its argument regarding its legal right to do so without the approval ...

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