Little Dix Bay staff say management refusing to meet them
This news site understands that tension among employees is mounting rapidly at Rosewood Little Dix Bay as staff members are complaining bitterly about the alleged shoddy treatment they are receiving from management as the clock ticks on the eminent closure of the resort for a year and a half.
This news site has received many calls from workers at various levels who complained bitterly about several issues, including the lack of answers to questions posed by staff to the management. "They say they have an open door policy but that's all a lie. We (staff) have been trying extremely hard to get answers to certain questions and it's impossible because HR is refusing to meet with us," alleged one irate employee.
Staff recently received a follow up letter to the termination letter they would have received around January 14, 2016. This new letter detailed how it was they were going to get their monies owed to them.
Who gets to stay?
Another issue raised by the staff has to do with who gets to stay and who has to go. "They are closing and saying we all have to go but yet everyday they are hiring more and more whites and we are hearing that these new whites and some others are staying on," one employee told this news site.
According to our inside reliable sources, since announcing that the resort is "sacking" it's over 300 employees it recently hired a number of Caucasians.
"We know for sure that they have made a decision to keep all those new hires," the employees alleged. They also presented names of the recently hired expat staff.
According to the staff, they are now being treated "like slaves" having no voice and being treated "like hogs" by a new senior staff who happens to be white. “He is not nice at all. He pushes us around, shouts at you like a pig, he is the most unfriendly insensitive person ever and then wants us to give guests the best service. How can the guests be happy when the staff is not?" asked one perplexed staff.
This news site made contact with Human Resources Manager of Rosewood Little Dix Bay Chantel Taylor and put the allegations of the staff to her.
She said she was not aware of any difficulties staff members were having trying to arrange a meeting with management. “I am not aware of that being the case because I know staff have been meeting with the HR Director,” she said.
She promised to have the Human Resources Director of the resort make contact with this news site but up to post time there was no word from that person.
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67 Responses to “ Little Dix Bay staff say management refusing to meet them”
I know that you can't tell an employer who to hired, but when an outside company operates in a foreign jurisdiction I believe that local employees takes precedence.
These complainers and their sense of entitlement were empowered when all hell broke loose because they were given 4 months in advance notice of their termination and Gov then stepped in with a big stiick.
They and future employees looking like them would be on my " sh . t" list too," if I was their employer.
Who wants to be globally portrayed as a villain after half a century of giving fair employment treatment,giving,fair and advanced notice and a proper pac.kage for termination?
NDP radio has disappeared.
over management or even ownership of established respectable businesses are indeed scum. This is just like
that over-protected garbage can that is BEING ALLOWED to have shut down Biras. I met the people working at
Rosewood and have all the respect for them. Something has to happen - all of this is too damn much!
What else,? Who knows.
LDB never had an ex pat hold the HR position before.
You have to realize that these people know and care very little about the history, culture and people of the BVI.
All they do is come here, live scot free, like an all paid inclusive vacation, have no bills so they lined their pockets, until it is their time to go. For them, it is a win-win situation. More must be done, better rules in place to curtail such.
Damn racists thinks BVIslanders were born yesterday.
I want to say that the current MD, has shown amazing support and humility. This is what is needed now. A listening ear, great suggestions, a shoulder to sometimes cry on. We are all in this together. The community will suffer, the VI will suffer, the restaurants will suffer, the charter planes/boats will suffer. I am sure, being GM, it is a difficult position to be in, but the important thing is that you show that you understand and that you care enough. There is a saying" people may forget what you said but they will remember what you did"
We will all learn from this from all angles, yes, some has been comfortable with their jobs, comfortable with having no change in a long time, but change we must accept, embrace and grow with.
Another thing, any employee working at the hotel, knows that the food served in the cafeteria, would be a hard serving for a cat, dog or even pig. Tasteless rice every day with farm grown fish, some kind of fish by the name of swai which no one knows about. The poor hard working staff, who mostly make minimum wage must eat, what else will they do? Work hungry? I am glad you are leaving, I hope you never come back! Our country does not need anyone like you! Go Lang! you brainwashed! or maybe you not a line employee or does not eat in the cafeteria.
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My Grandmother always say, when you squeeze a orange, what is in, will come out, so if the pulp is rotten, then rotten pulp will come out. Is that the way you really see the employees who have made this place what it is now? Given their all, some for almost 50 yrs? You are saying that they are old and filthy? Is that why you had to bring in the temporary butlers? May the Good Lord have mercy on us All!
Some folks mistake kindness for stupidity .
Yes I work at LDB ....
The good docter stated that these rich people are his friends. How come he can't tell them off when they're wrong?
He's been fed and watered by these people at their villa parties.
He can't utter anything when things go wrong.
He hasta lap his tail between his legs and shut the hell up!