The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Affairs is satisfied with the submission of the Ministry of Employment on the petition on the abuse of workers at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
The petition was tabled in parliament in May 2015 and the committee looked into the issue this week.
Committee Chair, Lorna Eden says there were a lot of the issues to do with bad management that existed since GPH opened in 2014 and that seems to be curbed with the new management in place.
Eden says this is highly evident because of the lack of grievances that have been filed from the employees of GPH this year when compared to previous years.
She says the Ministry has helped in ensuring that the previous management who mistreated workers, was terminated.
While making the Ministry’s submission, Deputy Secretary Vilimone Baledrokadroka says they have records of cases that was reported to them since 2014 by the GPH workers.
Baledrokadroka says there is a drop in complaints by GPH workers compared to 2014 and 2015 when the former General Manager was terminated from his work permit.
He says in 2014 to 2015 there was a rise in complaints, but after the decision was made on the management, there was a drop to 2 complaints in 2016 and one this year.
Lorna Eden says the committee will finalize the report and table it in parliament.
