A businessman from Labasa says labour laws are still one sided and favours employees a lot.
While raising his issue in a public consultation with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations at the Labasa Town Council, the businessman said this relates to the issuing of contracts to employees.
He says they waste so many papers in writing contracts for their employees but the employees do not adhere to them when tendering the resignation.
The businessman says if it’s written in the contract that an employee must work for one month after tendering his or her resignation, then it must be strictly followed as a number of times the employees run away.
A staff of Ministry of Employment and Industrial Relations then told the businessman that this can be addressed through the law.
He says it is also important to note that if an employee is paid on a weekly basis, then they will give a week’s notice when tendering their resignation and same for those who are paid fortnightly will have to give two weeks’ notice.
The staff of the Ministry of Employment and Industrial Relations adds that it is important for employers to include sections in their contracts that if the employees do not provide a notice and do not adhere to it, then the employers will have the right to withhold their wages.
He says businesses can write to the Permanent Secretary for Employment and Industrial Relations to report the matter.
