Tag: Tara Rivers
Minister urges public to wade in on labour debate
(CNS): The two month long public consultation period on the draft bill for a new labour law will provide the ministry with an opportunity to refine the proposed legislation before it is presented to parliament, the minister said at the first public meeting Tuesday. Tara Rivers urged people to write in and submit comments and […]
Ministry plans roadshow for new laws
(CNS): Following the recent publication of both the draft labour bill and extensive amendments to the pensions law, the employment minister and her ministry team are hitting the road next week to begin the task of presenting the proposed new legislation to the public. Starting with the Labour Law, which is a complete overhaul of […]
Enforcement key to success of new bills
(CNS): The struggle government has enforcing workplace legislation has been one of the considerations in the development of the new and amended labour and pension bills, which are now going through public consultation. The bills are expected to come before parliament later this year, but once the drafts have been finalized and passed, it will […]
New pension bill aims for ‘culture of compliance’
(CNS): With hundreds of local employers failing to comply with their pension obligations, the employment minister hopes a newly drafted proposed pension bill will foster a greater culture of compliance and improve the prospects of retirement for Cayman’s pensioners. Among the numerous changes, including raising the retirement age to 65 and increasing the amount of […]
Local applicants can’t be overqualified
(CNS): Proposed new labour legislation has a number of very specific clauses that the employment minister has said will assist and protect local workers. One provision that Tara Rivers believes will be of particular help to unemployed Caymanians is the prohibition on employers rejecting locals on the grounds that they are overqualified.
Rivers: Labour bill will help local workers
(CNS): A number of measures in the proposed new legislation dealing with labour relations will protect and help the Caymanian workforce in particular, the labour minister has said. Launching a sixty day consultation process Wednesday, Tara Rivers outlined the draft Labour Relations Bill 2015 and pointed to a number of new provisions that she said […]
Ministry takes education bill on the road
(CNS): Education Minister Tara Rivers and government officials began a series of public meetings at the weekend, which continue tonight in George Town. The open house sessions will enable the broader public, not just parents with school age kids, to ask questions and offer input on the proposed law. The public consultation began earlier this […]
Success rate of NWDA in question
(CNS): The employment minister has said the government’s National Workforce Development Agency is not a recruitment agency but still aims to help people find work. The ministry’s job centre was called into question Friday, when members of Finance Committee queried what the agency was doing, as it voted for over $1.5 million for this year’s […]
Ministry to tackle teacher trouble
(CNS): The acting chief officer in the education ministry has said that there are plans to review teachers’ pay, as well as to conduct exit interviews with all teachers who are leaving this year and to start focus groups with local teachers who have already quit the profession. Christen Suckoo told Finance Committee last week […]
Special education needs require more resources
(CNS): What appears to be a growing number of students in the government school and even pre-school system with special educational needs (SEN) and learning difficulties raised concerns among legislators last week, when the education minister’s budget for 2015/16 come under scrutiny. Tara Rivers said that SEN as well as the behaviour and social issues that […]
Education bill paves way for private sector involvement
(CNS): The revamped version of the 2009 Education Bill will be coming to the Legislative Assembly in September, paving the way for the existence of many different types of schools but it will not allow complete privatization of government-managed schools. The new law, when it is passed, will enshrine much of the current national education […]
