NSC’s ‘promise to pay’ Gym’s ex-workers

A week after being severed from their jobs at the defunct Gymnasium Ltd, the public workers who once ran the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex and the Wildley Gymnasium are still to receive their severance payments.

But Acting Director of the National Sports Council, Neil Murrell has promised that payment will be made to the ex-employees at the NSC offices tomorrow.

He said: “Monies for the payment of these terminated employees have already been lodged in the National Sports Council’s account via the Ministry of the Creative Economy, Culture and Sports.

On Monday, Minister John King told Barbados TODAY, the retrenched workers could be re-employed by the Sports Council as the layoffs were a technicality in the due process of the merger of the former Gymnasium Ltd with the NSC, which has taken control of the sporting complex and arena.