Clear Case of Injustice – SLPA Must Pay Prompt
Even though the Sierra Leone Industrial Court has done great justice by ordering the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA) to pay off the 180 redundant workers who dragged the institution to court, the workers are yet to get justice from the SLPA which has still not paid them.
This press has reliably gathered that about thirteen of the redundant workers have already died while many of the others are living miserable lives. We view the delay in the court-ordered payment as gross injustice on the part of the SLPA apart from seemingly being contempt of the court that gave the order.
The two billion Leones is comparatively a small amount for a giant income-generating institution like the SLPA, hence it must not delay in paying that small amount to the starving workers. The SLPA must not be insensitive to the plight of the redundant workers.
The SLPA, in the first place, has no right to redundant workers without paying them off on the spot; that is a gross violation of the labor laws of this country. Any responsible institution will not allow its workers to drag it to court for payment of benefit. Or is the SLPA waiting for most of the redundant workers to die so that their monies will be diverted into the bottomless bellies of certain callous and corrupt people?
We are calling on the SLPA to please honor our industrial court and do justice to the redundant workers by paying them off so that they can patch up their battered lives, otherwise, this press will continue to shout until the workers are paid the last penny.
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