There are three different types of Trade License applications based on the following industry types (i) Construction (ii) Crewed Yacht / Charters (iii) General ( for all other business types)
The main programme aim is lend financial assistance needy , BVIslander or Belonger owned small businesses in industry priority areas such as Technology and Technological innovations, Tourism and Cultural Industries, Marine Industry, Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Financial and Professional Services.
No. An employer must have a valid and fair reason for dismissing a worker at all times, including during the probationary period. That reason must be connected with the worker’s ability to perform or his conduct on the job or redundancy where the job has been abolished.
No. An employer is only permitted to extend your probationary period where it is in your interest to do so. For example, he or she may extend your probationary period where your absence from work due to illness or injury makes your actual working time on the job insufficient for your employer to make a fair assessment of your suitability for the job.
Can my employer offer me employment benefits that are less favourable than those in the Labour Code?
No. Any effort by an employer to offer terms and conditions that are less favourable than those of the Code is not legal. Your employer may offer you better conditions than those of the Code where it is fair to do so.
No. Any work in excess of the normal hours, that is maximum of eight hours, will earn overtime pay. Thus, the employer will be required to pay the worker overtime for the extra hour worked on Mondays to Thursdays.
NO, the Loan Programme is a National Programme created to assist Virgin Islander or Belonger owned businesses that require access to financial assistance.
Information provided to the Tribunal, including personal information, except as it relates to any complaint, reply, response or evidence led with the Tribunal, may be subject to publication or release to other parties or to disclosure in accordance with the access to information regime required by section 23(2) of the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007.
While the Virgin Islands has no equivalent to the UK’s Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and Environmental Information Regulations 2004, the constitutional guaranteed right of access to information will be protected by the Labour Arbitration Tribunal wherever appropriate. If you want any information to be treated as confidential, including personal data that you provide to the Tribunal outside of a case before the Tribunal, please explain to the Tribunal why you regard the information you have provided as confidential. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the Tribunal.
Yes, you have a right to know why your application has been denied