Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Staff now need employer's signature for NIB benefits

Read storyWorkers will now have to get employers to fill out a form when they apply for certain National Insurance benefits.

In the past only the applicant and doctors were required to provide information on claims for sickness, maternity leave and injury benefits.

But according to a statement from the National Insurance Board, this often led to workers collecting supplementary income even though they were still going to work and collecting income.

Full Story in The Tribune here

2 comments:

Ampy said...

[grumble] Haven't they figured out yet that buggery of the system always leads to more rules and more paperwork? So now the ever-greedy Bahamian public made it so that employers with grudges can procrastinate endlessly with our national benefits? [applause] Way-to-flicken-go!

GinaChu said...

:D I applaud Ampy for pointing out where the problem really is.

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