PHILIPSBURG--Bloem and Peterson Attorneys-at-Law have been given a deadline of 2:00pm today to encourage its client ? Pelican Resort ? to "cooperate" in allowing the resort's 182 workers back on the job.
Failure will result in the filing of individual summary proceedings against Pelican. The managing director of Pelican's new management company Simpson Bay Resort Management Company, Jules James, could not be reached for comment last night. James, a United People's (UP) party Member of Parliament (MP), was also a manager of the old company.
In a letter to Bloem and Peterson Attorneys-at-Law, lawyer Wim van Sambeek of HBN Law said the workers who were members of Workers Institute of Organised Labour (WIFOL) wanted to return to work.
He said the immediate filing of individual summary proceedings "will lead to the return of the members of my client to their jobs."
Van Sambeek, contending that he understood from the Government Labour Mediator that Pelican "will not voluntarily" allow workers back on the job, said, "By means of this letter my client would like to inform you that its members want to resume their duties immediately and request your client to cooperate.
"Please inform me no later than 11 February 2011 at 2:00pm that your client will adhere to this summons and that an orderly immediate return to the place of work will be organised together with our client and the government mediator."
Copies of the letter were forwarded to Pelican Resort and to the mediator.
The court ordered Simpson Bay Resort Management Company (SBRMC) on Tuesday to continue paying the 182 workers their salaries and to adhere to regulations stipulated in the collective labour agreement (CLA) with WIFOL. However, the court did not order the new company to secure employment for the workers.
The attorney had said on Tuesday that discussions would be held for the workers to resume their duties. The workers have been waging a battle since last year to be recognised as permanent employees of the new company with their benefits intact, as is stipulated in their CLA.
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