{"id":26189,"date":"2025-02-08T21:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26189"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:21:54","slug":"ministry-of-labour-reports-25-drop-in-worker-complaints-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ministry-of-labour-reports-25-drop-in-worker-complaints-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Labour Reports 25% Drop in Worker Complaints for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Celestine Chacon | January 7, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Labour has announced a 25% reduction in the number of worker complaints in 2024 compared to the previous year, crediting the decline to enhanced outreach efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton shared the data during a press conference, highlighting the ministry&#8217;s commitment to improving the workplace environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reduction is seen as a result of increased seminars and outreach programs designed to educate both employers and employees about workers&#8217; rights and responsibilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These initiatives aim to resolve potential issues before they escalate into formal complaints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the overall reduction in complaints, the private security sector remains a significant source of grievances, which the Ministry is focusing on addressing moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Minister Hamilton reported that over the past four years, the ministry has successfully recovered over $200 million in unpaid wages for employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024 alone, $31.7 million was recovered on behalf of workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Labour continues its efforts to ensure fair compensation and protect workers&#8217; rights, with ongoing inspections across the country&#8217;s ten administrative regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestine Chacon | January 7, 2025 The Ministry of Labour has announced a 25% reduction in the number of worker complaints in 2024 compared to the previous year, crediting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189","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=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26190,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions\/26190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}