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National Insurance and Social Security Act (No. 15)

Legal depository - Country: Guyana / Year: 1969

This Act to establish a system of national insurance and social security providing pecuniary payments by way of old-age benefit, invalidity benefit, survivors’s benefit, sickness benefit, maternity benefit and funeral benefit, and to substitute for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance a system of insurance against injury or death...

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Equal Rights Act (No. 19)

Legal depository - Country: Guyana / Year: 1990

This Act makes provisions for the enforcement of the principles enshrined in Article 29 of the Constitution of Guyana so as to secure equality for women and for matters connected therewith. Link to...

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Termination of Employment and Severance Pay Act (No. 19)

Legal depository - Country: Guyana / Year: 1997

Article 4.2 establishes an employee’s right to continuous employment in the event that the employee is absent from work due to taking annual, maternity or sick leave, or another type of leave. Article 8.1 states that the following reasons do not constitute good or sufficient cause for dismissal or...

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