THE State enterprise Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) encouraging slave labour,” shouted Roland Sutherland, President of Transport and Industrial Workers Union (TIWU).

Sutherland said: “The PTSC has not been abiding by International Labour Organisation, Convention 175, Article 7 which states that measures should be given to the part time employees such as annual leave, sick leave and termination.

“The state owned company PTSC acting illegally by not following the rules of the convention.”

Sutherland added: “That is over 10 years that some part time workers have not received any sick leave, compensation for over time and vacation.”

“Without these benefits the workers will be stressful and would not perform because of their knowledge of the ILC convention,” he said.

Sutherland also said: “They have taken PTSC to the Industrial Court on the matter and the breach in the ILO convention article and they (PTSC) said that they would adjourned the matter because they are having talks with the union.

“PTSC told the workers that they would have got back to them in two weeks and that caused workers to take demonstration last week,” Sutherland added, saying “that the PTSC were playing games and never co-operated with the TIWU.” Sutherland said: “In 1997 they had a memorandum agreement in which the PTSC stated that they had financial problems an now that agreement has expired.”

He added: “The part time worker were never part of the bargaining of the agreement.”

He said: “The principal of the court has established that workers should be paid and PTSC promised two weeks and still we have not got any answers.”