PHILIPSBURG--After consultation with its legal adviser, the St. Maarten Communications Union (SMCU) decided to urge Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen (NPNA) to pay Postal Services St. Maarten (PSS) staffers by the end of yesterday, Thursday or face legal action today, Friday.
The union was originally going to take action against PSS, but President Ludson Evers said the payslips workers received from NPNA means that the latter had the intention to pay the workers and they should do so.
He said NPNA can forward the money to pay the workers and seek reimbursement from PSS later. A letter to this effect was sent to NPNA via SMCU's legal adviser. "If NPNA is the one that has to support PSS financially then they can pay the salaries," Evers said on Thursday.
PSS workers had received payslips for their November salaries, but no money. The workers had first informed Evers of their predicament last Friday.
Evers had told reporters on Wednesday that when NPNA's head Franklin Sluis was contacted the union was told that PSS had not submitted the relevant information needed for payments to be made. Evers had said based on the agreement signed between parties recently, NPNA had agreed to cover all the "shortfalls" as it related to PSS' operations in the form of a zero per cent interest loan repayable over a six month-period in 2012.
For NPNA to make payments to cover the shortfalls, however, 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 are now under the employ of PSS. He said NPNA has to now pay the workers since it issued payslips.
Evers said the salary tab for PSS workers is between NAf. 96,000 and NAf. 100,000 per month.
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