A photo of NIB staff protesting that circulated on social media.
ANGRY employees of the National Insurance Board protested outside the entity’s Baillou Hill Road headquarters yesterday over fears they will receive a pay cut for unexcused absences and not receive increments and Christmas bonuses on time this year.
“We have been receiving letters from HR [human resources] stating that we will be cut for December and they are asking us to present letters of unexcused absences,” President of the Union of Public Officers Marvin Duncombe told ZNS News.
“We have submitted these unexcused absences for 2016, we are not going to submit them once again. They seem as if they don’t know how to do their job and they want us to do their job for them.”
He said employees are also upset some workers were not paid their salaries on time this month.
“In a $1.7b operation, you can’t pay salaries? For the first time in history, our members have not been paid and today they won’t be paid until after 5 today [Monday],” Mr Duncombe said. “This is unacceptable, we are not taking it and we are here to take a stand.”
He also said: “I’m calling on the leaders of the nation to fix this NIB. NIB is helpful to too many people around this country for the people, the workers to be suffering in the way that they are suffering.
According to ZNS News, Minister of Public Service and National Insurance Brensil Rolle said the delay in staff salaries was due to a glitch at FirstCaribbean International Bank.
Comments
Greentea 6 years, 11 months ago
"fears they will receive a pay cut for unexcused absences and not receive increments and Christmas bonuses on time this year." Cry me a river!
sealice 6 years, 11 months ago
they bitching about not being paid when Bahamians that paid the tax their whole lives can't get Jacqushit? And they don't seem to think there's anything wrong with doing nothing and asking for raises? Who raised these people?
DDK 6 years, 11 months ago
Cry me a river is right! NIB is an agency whose civil servants GENERALLY have horrible customer service attitudes and terrible work ethics.
hrysippus 6 years, 11 months ago
I very much dislike dealing with anyone of the nib minions. They are as lazy as the post office workers; as rude as the immigration officers; and grubalicious as those working in the Inland Revenue department. Thr truth is that the workers are so overcompensated with salary, pensions and other benefits such as medical insurance, that nib is unsustainable and will not be able to meet it's obligations to retiring workers in about ten years time. Expect a substantial increase in the rate at which employers and employees are taxed, sorry that should read contributed at.......
TalRussell 6 years, 11 months ago
Comrades! The Tribune needs find out if the red shirts cabinet members are all update with their residential and businesses lights and water bills and property taxes.... What about the government's own light bills and Baha Mar? What about light bills foreign countries Embassies operating in the Bahamaland?
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