Dec 04 Unite & Barclays Sign Local Collective Agreement
Following the announcement made to staff this morning by Keith Bailey, Chief Country Officer for Barclays in Gibraltar and Christian Duo Acting Regional Officer for Unite. Christian Duo said that he is pleased with the new Local Collective Agreement that it reached with Barclays with regards to a one off additional payment for all displaced staff. This is in addition to the previously announced redundancy package.
This agreement was made possible because of the commitment by Unite and Barclays to work in collaboration, and the ongoing desire from both sides to support all the impacted staff in Gibraltar.
This agreement is exclusive for Gibraltar, and remains valid until 31 December 2016.
We have stressed to Barclays the unique situation that exists in Gibraltar and that we felt a different approach should be taken. Unite is pleased that Barclays has recognised this and has agreed to the enhanced redundancy package.
Investigations following the discovery of the body of a man at Sandy Bay in the early hours of Friday the 29th of November 2013 have determined that the deceased is a 36 year old Moroccan national who resided in Morocco. 
As previously announced, Gibraltar will be staging its first ever Small Business Saturday on the 7th December 2013 with the aim to boost commercial activity on the Rock.
The Leader of the Opposition Daniel Feetham yesterday morning participated in seminar organised by the University of Cadiz with students at Jerez entitled “Gibraltar y las controversias hispano-británicas” where he gave Gibraltarian perspective on some of the issues affecting Gibraltar-Spanish relations such as the sovereignty of British-Gibraltar Territorial waters, where for example, he explained the Gibraltarian position of why the Spanish doctrine of “costa seca” (i.e. that Gibraltar was ceded without territorial waters) was not correct whilst at the same advocating a policy of de-escalation, engagement and dialogue with Spain.
