The Government through the Attorney General Chambers, will be moving to the Court of Appeal, to appeal a High Court ruling that found the deduction of payments for nurses who were involved in a protest over their working conditions, was unlawful.
In March 2021, the then management of the Linden Hospital, refused to pay the full salary for several nurses who were protesting over their working conditions and calling for the removal of the then CEO.
The nurses, through the Guyana Public Service Union, filed Court action, and the High Court recently ruled in favour of the nurses, declaring that the deduction of the money from their salaries and the hospital’s management punishing them for absenteeism, were both unlawful.
The Court ordered that the deducted payments be paid over to the nurses, and the letter that instructed the deductions, be withdrawn.
The GPSU said it found out that an appeal was being filed in the case, after it wrote to the Permanent Secretary requesting that the Ministry of Health follows the Court order and pay the nurses the money that was deducted.
In his response, the Permanent Secretary informed the union of the move to appeal.
The GPSU said the injustice that was committed on the workers should not be prolonged, adding that the workers continue to suffer from the unlawful act.
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