For salary cut – SLBC threatens protest
Editors, producers, presenters, etc., all workers of Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) have threatened strike action due to an uncalled-for reduction of their February salaries upwards. (Photo: Director General SLBC, Gbanagbome Hallowell)
Disclosures are that salaries of recently employed SLBC personnel experienced colossal reduction.
Dissatisfied SLBC workers say however that in a letter issued them it is observed that their salaries – effective February 2012 – had a decrease of 30%.
Findings are that staff of SLBC expected a percentage increase of the corporation’s new salary scale effective February 2012 upwards.
The workers who spoke on grounds of anonymity said nevertheless that salaries of the SLBC Director and Deputy Director General rose above Le 12-18 million; and not a cent is detached from it at all.
“Nowhere the world over would salaries of workers reduce as an alternative management change, yet reasons told sound completely unpersuasive,” some displeased SLBC workers revealed.
“Board members,” they said, “receive five or more millions every month for doing nothing. And those of us who do the dirty job have had our ‘pittance’ salaries unwarrantedly reduced.”
In his reply, the Director General SLBC, Gbanagbome Hallowell denied reducing salaries of the recently employed workers, but confirmed he has submitted a salary proposal to government for approval.
The workers, Gbanagbome said, must understand that it is my intention to provide them with better conditions of service in the near future.
“Pay us our full salaries or we will down tools anytime any moment,” the workers reaffirmed.
Efforts to have the say of the Minister of Information proved futile.
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