{"id":34987,"date":"2012-02-10T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2012-02-10T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:04:56","slug":"for-salary-cut-slbc-threatens-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=34987","title":{"rendered":"For salary cut &#8211; SLBC threatens protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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. \u00a0<em>(Photo:\u00a0Director General SLBC, Gbanagbome Hallowell)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disclosures are that salaries of recently employed SLBC personnel experienced colossal reduction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dissatisfied SLBC workers say however that in a letter issued them it is observed that their salaries &#8211; effective February 2012 &#8211; had a decrease of 30%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Findings are that staff of SLBC expected a percentage increase of the corporation\u2019s new salary scale effective February 2012 upwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNowhere the world over would salaries of workers reduce as an alternative management change, yet reasons told sound completely unpersuasive,\u201d some displeased SLBC workers revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBoard members,\u201d they said, \u201creceive five or more millions every month for doing nothing. \u00a0And those of us who do the dirty job have had our \u2018pittance\u2019 salaries unwarrantedly reduced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workers, Gbanagbome said, must understand that it is my intention to provide them with better conditions of service in the near future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cPay us our full salaries or we will down tools anytime any moment,\u201d the workers reaffirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Efforts to have the say of the Minister of Information proved futile.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,673,1],"tags":[2067],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-slbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}