Prime Minister Mia Mottley has defended the Labour Clauses (Concessions) Bill, denying any conflict of interest between her administration and the labour movement.She rebuffed accusations that the government was being heavily influenced by labour unions in the process of crafting the Bill, as debate continued in the House of Assembly on Tuesday.Mottley also slammed “misogynist” critics who suggested a conflict of interest between the head of the nation’s largest union –Toni Moore who holds the St George North seat for the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the leader of the government.Donville Inniss, the minister for business in the Freundel Stuart administration, had suggested that the Bill was the result of undue influence by a labour union with ties to the government. He told Barbados TODAY: “Sound government policies cannot and must not be made at the whims and fancies of one labour union, especially when said leadership takes comfort and control within the bosom of the political directorate.”
