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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Bahamas Information Services Updates The dispute was referred after Labour Director Robert Farquharson personally intervened and concluded that all outstanding issues between the Health Ministry and the BNU were either resolved or a procedure for resolution was agreed by both parties, however, executives of the BNU refused to withdraw the matter. This referral, made in the public’s interest, prohibits members of the BNU from taking any industrial action in pursuance of the aforementioned trade dispute according to section 72(1) of the Industrial Relations Act, Chapter 321 of the Statue Laws of Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
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Nassau, Bahamas - The public is advised that the Minister of Labour and National Insurance the Hon.
D. Shane Gibson on Thursday 22nd
December 2016, acting in accordance
with section 72(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1970, referred a
trade dispute filed by the Bahamas Nurses Union (BNU) against the
Ministry of Health,
to the Bahamas Industrial Tribunal.