{"id":7571,"date":"2010-04-09T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T21:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:25:26","slug":"three-fortnights-no-pay-public-works-employee-complains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/three-fortnights-no-pay-public-works-employee-complains\/","title":{"rendered":"Three fortnights, no pay &#8211; Public Works employee complains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7573\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/some-workers-outside-PWC-AFTER-THE-MEETING1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7573\" title=\"some workers outside PWC AFTER THE MEETING\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/some-workers-outside-PWC-AFTER-THE-MEETING1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the workers who were laid off gather on Public Works building premises<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shop Steward of the Public Works Corporation St. Louis Dumas said he is upset about the manner in which staff were dismissed from work last week and steps should be implemented to not have a repeat of such incident.<\/p>\n<p>Dumas told a media interview last evening, that staff members were treated with disrespect.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen employees were dismissed this week with no definite date to return. In a letter to those workers, the Public Works Corporation stated financial difficulties as the reason for its action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManagement have their financial problems, but there was no dialogue with the staff members. I received a call to report to the office and when I did a letter was given to me indicating that I should stay home, because there was no money to pay me,\u201d Dumas said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, for three fortnights staff has not gotten paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are difficulties paying staff. They said there isn\u2019t, but for three fortnights we have not gotten paid. We decided that we could hold, but when month end came we decided that we couldn\u2019t take it again. Management got paid and we didn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dumas noted that staff vented their frustrations about non-payments of salaries on the morning of March 31, and received the letter the same evening.<\/p>\n<p>He said the &#8220;walking letters&#8221; were issued because staff were upset about not being paid.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; DNO Correspondent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shop Steward of the Public Works Corporation St. Louis Dumas said he is upset about the manner in which staff were dismissed from work last week and steps should be implemented to not have a repeat of such incident. 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