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Thomas Letang said the issue of salaries and wages at the PWC must stop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Public Works Corporation has said it continues to face ‘challenges’ in its attempt to pay salaries and wages to its employees.<\/p>\n

“Once again, we are at the point where two fortnights and one month\u2019s salary are unpaid; this is now coupled with unpaid deductions from the last month\u2019s obligations,” the company said in a release.<\/p>\n

It said all these obligations were met by 3.40 p.m. on Wednesday, but it was too late to prevent industrial action by staff who called in sick on that day.<\/p>\n

The PWC is now calling on several of its debtors to settle their accounts in order for it to meet its obligations to workers.<\/p>\n

“We encourage others to settle their accounts with us so we can meet our obligations including those to suppliers and other support services so that we can continue to operate,” the PWC said.<\/p>\n

The corporation said it is doing all in its power to collect outstanding amounts from clients.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Thomas Letang, General secretary of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) who is representing PWC workers, said the the matter of wages and salaries has been ongoing at the PWC for too long time and it must not continue. “We need to put an end to it,” he said.<\/p>\n

He is suggesting that a board be appointed to run the PWC since the Public Works Act allows a board ‘to do certain\u00a0 things.’ “We need to appoint a board,” he said. “Public Works has been without a board for a few months now.”<\/p>\n

Letang also stated that ‘micro management’ at the PWC need to be stopped and the general manager be allowed to do his job. “I believe that there is somebody at Public Work, in the capacity of the general manager, who can get things done,” he said. “He need to be empowered, he need to be allowed to do what he was employed to do.”<\/p>\n

He is also concerned that work is being given to private contractors while the PWC is left with little. “What we are seeing is most of these works are being given to private contractors and these people are continually being employed throughout the year, for the entire year, while those at Public Works have nothing,” he stressed. “That raises some concerns and questions have to be asked.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Public Works Corporation has said it continues to face ‘challenges’ in its attempt to pay salaries and wages to its employees. “Once again, we are at the point where two fortnights and one month\u2019s salary are unpaid; this is…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPayments of salaries and wages a challenge - 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