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Expats require work permits to work @ Festival booths- VI Gov’t reminds
The 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival will be held from July 14 to August 10, 2024.
The Department of Labour and Workforce Development in a bulletin on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, said it is encouraging employers to submit work permit applications at least 10 days prior to the commencement of work during the upcoming Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival.
It said failure to do so will render persons in direct violation of Section 171 of the 2010 Labour Code.
Accordingly, all employers operating on the Festival Grounds are urged to apply for, and obtain a work permit for non-Belongers or non-Virgin Islanders that they are seeking to employ.
Violation of 2010 Labour Code
According to Section 174 of the 2010 Labour Code, a person who fails to comply with Section 171 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding eight thousand dollars, and any work permit granted to him or her shall be cancelled.
Additionally, the Labour Commissioner may request the assistance of the Commissioner of Police, the Chief Immigration Officer or Comptroller of Customs or any other government agency for “purposes of enforcing this Part.”
For more information regarding work permit applications, persons are encouraged to contact the Department of Labour and Workforce Development by telephone at 468-4708 or 468-4780.
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56 Responses to “Expats require work permits to work @ Festival booths- VI Gov’t reminds”
Yall hate these people because they get off their @$$ and make the money yall toooo lazy to get up and make smh.
THEM ISLAND CAVE
Like you calling for a hurricane to come and clean your dirty mind. One Love BVI ?? Don’t ask for the Most High to level the playing field. Be more conscious please. We tired of this foolish barblings.
Any where one goes in the world one has to follow the laws of land, ie, Jamaica,,SVG, DR, US,,Cuba, PR, UK, and so on. Why should the BVI be any different?
If regular permit renewals where they already have all the information that was already scrutinized and approved, and it takes months, how are you going to process these in two weeks? Craven choke puppy.
Yes you still need a permit knowledge or no knowledge work is work it could be for 3 days
Undeclared Income
They were created to hide your injustices and keep the expats in chains
Turn on you brain. The reason all expats here is not enough people to do all the work.
After Irma expats them step up. Now we require work permits? When VISAR save fisher that sink, you go fine they for no work papers? PAWS people help with cats and dogs run amuck, with no pay, so now they have to stop?
The politicians need stop and think. We need these people. When they volunteer to work free, stop this stupidness.
Why stay in a country and complain as if you have rights? You all think you'll be treated like locals after the Commission of Inquiry is concluded?
According to Section 174 of the 2010 Labour Code, a person who fails to comply with Section 171 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding eight thousand dollars, and any work permit granted to him or her shall be cancelled.
Additionally, the Labour Commissioner may request the assistance of the Commissioner of Police, the Chief Immigration Officer or Comptroller of Customs or any other government agency for “purposes of enforcing this Part.”
if its really freedom them make the nights free and drinks and food will have to be paid for.
its a celebration not a another profit.