The Tribune

EMPLOYEES of the Gaming Board protested outside the organisation yesterday and demanded unpaid overtime and holiday pay.

The group also wants overdue increments and claimed they are working in an unsafe environment.

Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) President John Pinder was at the demonstration as scores of frustrated workers waved placards calling for the government’s attention.

“We had agreed in the 2005 industrial agreement that persons would have not received the normal increment, we were moving to the high performance evaluation to try to motivate staff to not just work for the normal increment,” he told reporters yesterday.

“That was agreed to, we never really worked out the formula for it. . .They are still waiting to be paid for the increments.”

He claimed that employees are owed as much as $900.

Mr Pinder said the Gaming Board building is also under renovation, an issue he says raises safety concerns for the employees. He claimed that two employees have been injured at work.