Agree with Miller and Davis 100%. Employees should NEVER be allowed to collect a paycheck and disability from NIB at the same time. If you are disabled and cannot work why be allowed to receive a paycheck?

Leslie Miller should be PM. Then we would be able to move forward, upward, onward together. But as it has been since 1967, it has only been "forward" for the chosen few and the illegal immigrants they employ.

The choice is in the hands of the bahamian people and they deserve to get whatever they choose to get. The choice will be made soon.

Even if the Bahamian dollar was going to be cut to 75cents vs US$, because of our outlandish debts and spending, the Unions would still say "We still want our benefits, as long as we get more than ya'll - too bad for ya'll".

Wtf? Leslie been there all but 2hours and Brave was there 5yrs (having apparently done nothing) and proudly states that? There must be some conflict in contract terms. I'm sure NIB's clause states the rules clearly, Full Salary = NO NIB. I'll eat my hat if NIB has some other rule in place. No one can come in after and agree to a contract that violates what NIB has in place that's ridiculous. He is a lawyer and I hear a good one at that. One contract has to be declared null and void and I suspect it's the latter. More than likely no one had the political courage to upset the applecart,...better yet the gravy train.

@This is Ours, I won't recommend eating your hat. What Brave is conveniently not saying is that the NIB sick benefits are a legal entitlement once sickness is ascertained. If an employer through an employment contract also agrees to pay full sick pay as well that is a discretion of the employer and by the way not against any law. In my business I do pay my employees full pay during sickness, but with the understanding that if NIB is claimed then they are to reimburse the company with the NIB benefit. In my view, what is going on is certainly unjust enrichment but technically it is not against the law and is merely an employer contractually granting its employees an enhanced benefit similar to an employer granting 20 days vacation per annum instead of the, I believe, 7 days in the Employment Act. Successive PLP and FNM governments, as Brave is fully aware exercised their discretion to contractually grant these civil servants these enhanced benefits and Brave is now just being politically expedient and less than honest in shifting the blame to the civil servants who are merely following the terms of their employment contracts in most cases. As for their behaviour and the behaviour of Miller that is an entirely different matter.

I feel indigestion coming on already... Ok so as the employer you grant paid sick days of 12 days or so. Over those 12 days the employee is receiving full pay while sick from you. My question is does NIB (not the employer) have rules that say "when I submit this form I am doing so in good faith that my salary has been cut due to sickness"? (I have my hat ready)

I think it is the other way around. When an employee is sick, once they have contributed to NIB they are entitled to the NIB sickness benefit. They are not entitled, based on my understanding, to full pay or any pay from their employer once they have exceeded their prescribed sick days, unless of course this is negotiated in their employment contract. So it is the employer not NIB that makes the decision. When they pay full pay they do so knowing full well NIB is obligated to pay the benefit once it is claimed.

And then what does Prime Minister, Perry Christie say: LISTEN!

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

B.E.C union has had its grip on this country's groin for too long. Who can remember growing up and the lights going off every day and every night and the only explanation was that BEC was striking. Leslie Miller has made great strides in getting BEC goons and its union to release its grip in the Bahamian people and bring some sanity and profitability to that corporation. For the past three years the greedy goods at that corporation has forced many families to live without electricity and many small businesses to close down because they went around week after week, (no I do not mean monthly) disconnecting these peoples supplies...sometimes *three* times in the same month. Just to line their own pockets with money and live high on the hog while 6,000 Bahamian families lived in the dark Leslie Miller has brought an end to this scandal. They claimed it was something that was ordered by the former prime minister, who brought in 'experts' to give advice. But the greedy goons at BEC used it to their advantage...now they trying to figure how they going to pay mortgage onlavish homes and apartments they built, and car notes even.

“I know he is--sensitive--on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.”
― Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder

Unions are whats sucking this country dry they always want more money and benefits for less productivity.Thank you Mr. Miller for standing up to these evil unions.