By M. Dennise Nimpson |Contributor
MONROVIA- Employees of the Daily Observer, Liberia’s long standing independent Daily are calling on human rights advocates and lawyers, and the St. Stephen Episcopal Church to prevail on Kenneth Y. Best to pay their two years’ salary arrears.
The call by the employees comes after a failed promise by the management earlier that it would settle their arrears at the just ended June.
The aggrieved employees claim management has seized every amenity including scratch cards and transportation allowances and continue to set false impression that it would settle them, but cannot meet up with the promise.
According to the employees, the management has a strategy to pay one or half-month salary out of two years’ arrears to some employees whose works appear technical in order to halt them from striking.
The workers claimed “the Bible prohibits owing debt to others as illustrated in the book of Deuteronomy”.
They stressed that the paper remains the highest advert receiver, but management has always told them that advertisements that include the government, USAID, China, the UN institutions and other private entities are not paying the debt they owed the institution.
Funded in 1981, Liberian Observer cooperation which operates the Daily observer newspaper has more than 20 employees including reporters, editors and graphic layout personnel.
Liberia Public Radio is yet to get word from the founder of the Daily Observer newspaper Mr. Kenneth Y. Best over the employees’ claim.
