ABSTRACT

This chapter provides a digest compendium of seminal cases and selected excerpts of statutes from various Caribbean countries. Employee means a person who offers his services under a contract of employment and includes a dependent contractor and, where appropriate, a former employee. Where a trade union and an employer propose to enter into an industrial agreement under section 46, they shall sign and send to the Industrial Tribunal a draft of the industrial agreement with a request for its registration, and shall at the same time send a copy of the draft industrial agreement to the Minister for his information. Sexual harassment means any unwanted conduct of a sexual nature in the workplace or in connection with the performance of work which is threatened or imposed as a condition of employment on the employee or which creates a hostile working environment for the employee.