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Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been urged to use her influence to find a resolution for the scores of Barbadian former LIAT employees who have yet to receive severance more than two years after being laid off.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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The call came from one of the distraught former workers, who, while speaking on popular radio call in programme\u00a0Down to Brasstacks<\/strong>, said he and his colleagues were at their wits\u2019 ends and in desperate need of help.<\/p>\n

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He said Mottley, who was recently named as one of the 100 most influential people of 2022 by Times magazine, should be able to use her position to negotiate a deal for the former LIAT pilots and other staff members.<\/p>

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The frustrated caller queried why the St Lucia government, which is not a shareholder of LIAT, had offered to pay out some of its workers and Barbados had not done the same.<\/p>

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However, when asked to respond to the concerns raised by the former workers today, Mottley said she would prefer to first hear what issues were raised.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister did indicate that she had been in discussions with Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne on possibly finding a solution.<\/p>

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\u201cI haven\u2019t heard the programme and you\u2019re now talking to me about it in the middle of this exercise so the first thing I will do is just as I ask people to do and that is go out and measure and monitor. I need to know what they said and I need to see what the issues are.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been talking to Gaston [Browne] as well. Last week in Guyana we talked about how we can use LIAT in a more effective way as well for cargo. We have also recognized that there are outstanding issues and we\u2019ve said to him that we need to meet. I don\u2019t know what was said today so I don\u2019t know how to respond other than that,\u201d Mottley responded.<\/p>

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More than 500 workers of LIAT (1974) Ltd were temporarily laid off on April 1, 2020, including around 55 from Barbados.<\/p>

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To date, they have received no severance nor outstanding monies, which include vacation pay and retroactive pay owed to them by LIAT.<\/p>\n

It has been estimated that former Barbadian workers are owed in the region of $13 million EC dollars ($9.7 million) by LIAT.<\/p>\n

In May last year, Government provided a one-off gift of 2000 to just under 100 displaced Barbadian Liat workers.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the workers received an advance of $2,000 per month for a year to be paid back at a future date from any eventual severance settlement.\u00a0\u2014 Barbados TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n

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