THE 180 unionised workers employed to United General Insurance stayed off the job for a second day yesterday, as they protested against the company’s refusal to supply a list of jobs to be made redundant.

The insurance company, starting Monday, will be cutting just over 100 of 350 employees, but the workers and the National Workers Union, which represents them, said that up to yesterday the company still had not advised of the workers to be cut.

In addition to the insurance company’s head office in the capital, Kingston, unionised workers at branches in Black River, Mandeville, Ocho Rios and May Pen also stayed away from work.

At the company’s head office on Trafalgar Road in Kingston, the unionised employees, including chief union delegate Sharon Needham, sat on the lawns as they discussed their future with the company.

“It sounds fishy,” Needham said of UGI’s refusal to produce the list of employees whose jobs are to be made redundant. “It look like some Nicodemus thing,” she quipped.

Calls yesterday to the office of UGI’s general manager Andrea Gordon-Martin were not returned.

In the meantime, Needham said since Michael Lee Chin’s AIC acquired the insurance company last March, there have been a series of restructuring, including the shifting and transferring of managers, but that the staff cut would be the biggest part of that restructuring.

The chief union delegate said while the employees knew of the decision to make some staff redundant, they were told that this would be done in March.

“The law states that they must give us adequate notice as well as assist us in finding new employment,” Needham said.

She said the company’s management had promised the workers on Thursday that the list would be available yesterday, but up to late in the afternoon she said they had not received the list.