{"id":242189,"date":"2003-05-28T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/05\/management-sick-out-at-water-hq"},"modified":"2003-05-28T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2003-05-28T16:45:08","slug":"management-sick-out-at-water-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/05\/management-sick-out-at-water-hq","title":{"rendered":"Management &#39;Sick-Out&#39; At Water HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle management at the Water and Sewerage Corporation staged a sick-out to protest the terms of pay and work benefits at the company, The Tribune was told.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to a source close to the union, a strike is a bad idea.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&quot;Basically these workers, who represent less than ten per cent of the corporations workforce, are complaining about salaries. Well they get paid more than their counterparts at BEC and BaTelCo.&quot;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe source said that Water and Sewerage workers are paid for overtime, unlike many middle managers in the private sector. &quot;if they work overtime they get paid, sometimes they can make $500 if they work on a Saturday.&quot;<P><br \/>\nThe source said that traditionally the three successive governments have always treated Water and Sewerage employees fairly.<br \/>\n<P><B>The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a source close to the union, a strike is a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}