WORKERS AT THE LANDFILL LAMENT OVER ONE YEAR FOUR MONTHS ARREARS
Workers at the Landfill at Kuwait, a suburb of Asokwa Municipal in the Ashanti Region is appealing on Kumasi metropolitan chief executive officer, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi and the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah to intervene in addressing the issue of their sixteen months salary arrears after the takeover of the Landfill management by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
According to the information gathered, the takeover of the Landfill management by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly from J. Stanley Owusu & Company is the major cause of the company inability to pay its workers for the past sixteen months.
The delaying of the salary arrears of the workers had had a negative effect on the new management of the Landfill which has led to unbearable stenching all over the community that can easily lead to cholera or malaria outbreak if care is not taking.
J. Owusu & Company is a Waste Management company. The company was established and managed by Mr. J. Stanley Owusu the Chief Executive Officer of the company. The company is said to have operated at the Landfill for the past twenty years which has really created good impact in the management of sanitation in the Kumasi metropolis and its environs.
They said the demonstration which they were planned to have organised if by the 20th of May, 2019, they did not hear any good news from the city authorities concerning their grievances was canceled due to the plugged made to them by the new management of the Landfill to pay them the arrears by the end of May 2019 but as at its stand, no penny has been paid into their account.
"We want the authorities interventions to address the concerns ( 16 months salary arrears) of J. Stanley Owusu & Company and its employees. They cried out.
By: Akgri M. Daniel
Workers at the Landfill at Kuwait, a suburb of Asokwa Municipal in the Ashanti Region is appealing on Kumasi metropolitan chief executive officer, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi and the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah to intervene in addressing the issue of their sixteen months salary arrears after the takeover of the Landfill management by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
According to the information gathered, the takeover of the Landfill management by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly from J. Stanley Owusu & Company is the major cause of the company inability to pay its workers for the past sixteen months.
The delaying of the salary arrears of the workers had had a negative effect on the new management of the Landfill which has led to unbearable stenching all over the community that can easily lead to cholera or malaria outbreak if care is not taking.
J. Owusu & Company is a Waste Management company. The company was established and managed by Mr. J. Stanley Owusu the Chief Executive Officer of the company. The company is said to have operated at the Landfill for the past twenty years which has really created good impact in the management of sanitation in the Kumasi metropolis and its environs.
They said the demonstration which they were planned to have organised if by the 20th of May, 2019, they did not hear any good news from the city authorities concerning their grievances was canceled due to the plugged made to them by the new management of the Landfill to pay them the arrears by the end of May 2019 but as at its stand, no penny has been paid into their account.
"We want the authorities interventions to address the concerns ( 16 months salary arrears) of J. Stanley Owusu & Company and its employees. They cried out.
By: Akgri M. Daniel
