~ Union threatens to file injunction against PSS ~
PHILIPSBURG--Postal Services St. Maarten (PSS) workers have received payslips for their November salaries, but no money.
When contacted for comment on Wednesday, PSS Head Denicio Richardson said he had no comment while the matter was being resolved.
St. Maarten Communications Union (SMCU) President Ludson Evers told reporters yesterday that the workers had informed him last week Friday that they had not yet received their November salaries. If this situation persists today, Evers said, the union will be forced to file an injunction against PSS by tomorrow, Friday.
Evers said that when contacted, Richardson had told the union he was not aware of the situation. When Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen (NPNA) head Franklin Sluis was contacted the union was told that PSS had not submitted the relevant information needed for payments to be made.
Evers said that based on the agreement signed between the parties recently, NPNA had agreed to cover all the "shortfalls" pertaining to PSS' operations in the form of a zero per cent interest loan repayable over a six-month period in 2012.
However, for NPNA to make payments to cover the shortfalls, PSS has to submit the relevant information indicating the amount it was unable to cover for the month in question. Evers said NPNA would then make payment within eight days.
What is strange about this entire situation, he said, is that PSS staffers had received their November salary payslips from NPNA, while they were now under the employ of PSS. He said the union had to look into this matter, as receiving payslips from NPNA could mean that the workers were still working for NPNA, which he said was not the case.
Evers said the salary tab for PSS workers was between NAf. 96,000 and NAf. 100,000 per month.
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