{"id":19811,"date":"2024-05-27T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:57:31","slug":"government-to-appeal-high-court-ruling-in-gtu-case-despite-lack-of-written-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-to-appeal-high-court-ruling-in-gtu-case-despite-lack-of-written-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to Appeal High Court Ruling in GTU Case Despite Lack of Written Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>By Samuel Suknandan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced that the government plans to appeal the High Court\u2019s ruling in the Guyana Teachers\u2019 Union (GTU) case, despite not yet receiving a written judgment from Justice Sandil Kissoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly four weeks after the ruling, the written decision is still pending, and the government has just two weeks left to file an appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nandlall&#8217;s office has formally requested the written judgment from Justice Kissoon\u2019s Registrar but has yet to receive a response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the urgency, the Attorney General intends to proceed with the appeal and will seek a stay of the ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Court ruled that the GTU\u2019s 29-day strike earlier this year was legal and valid, citing the government&#8217;s failure to engage in collective bargaining for higher salaries from 2019 to 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government, however, disputes this decision, arguing that paying full salaries to striking employees violates constitutional property rights and emphasizes the freedom to strike over an inherent right to strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nandlall expressed confidence that the appeal would overturn the High Court\u2019s decision, which some have labeled as landmark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He contends that the ruling forces the government to pay for services not rendered, effectively taking away its property in the form of wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government asserts that the High Court misinterpreted the difference between the freedom to strike, which it acknowledges, and the right to strike, which it disputes as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Suknandan Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced that the government plans to appeal the High Court\u2019s ruling in the Guyana Teachers\u2019 Union (GTU) case, despite not yet receiving a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}