{"id":168004,"date":"2023-01-22T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T13:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=168004"},"modified":"2023-01-22T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T13:12:06","slug":"former-liat-workers-say-govt-continues-to-let-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/former-liat-workers-say-govt-continues-to-let-them-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Former LIAT workers say Gov\u2019t continues to let them down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reflecting on the \u201cbroken promises\u201d they have been left with, a group of former LIAT employees has blasted the Mia Mottley administration for failing to pay the severance the airline has owed them for more than two years.<\/p>

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The distraught workers noted that not even a petition they started nine months ago to raise awareness of their plight has resonated with the Barbados Government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDespite 2, 273 [people] signing the petition which was submitted to the Clerk of Parliament in Barbados on June 14, 2022, unfortunately, our plight has once again fallen on deaf ears. Many of the former employees across the region are still depressed and are facing dire circumstances despite their best efforts to rebound after not being compensated in any way since 2020. Other public appeals and petitions have also been ignored,\u201d the group told\u00a0<\/span>Barbados TODAY<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cThe shareholder governments, namely Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines should hold their heads in shame as they have left hundreds of their citizens and former employees in the dark as it pertains to the status of the severance due,\u201d the retrenched airline staff added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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In the case of Barbados, the ex-employees here said Prime Minister Mottley had promised to provide an update back in June 2022, but that has not materialised.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, those staffers have heard nothing from her on what the Barbados Government is doing to fulfil their promise of assisting in getting the issue of the owed severance resolved for the workers. Surely, Prime Minister Mottley could do much more to solve this unjust situation,\u201d the ex-employees of the Antigua-based airline declared.<\/p>

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Minister of Tourism and International Transport Ian Gooding-Edghill has told<\/span>\u00a0Barbados TODAY<\/span>\u00a0he will look into the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the former workers have urged the leaders of Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica to follow the lead of their St Lucian counterpart who last month paid severance in the form of bond certificates to 47 citizens of that country who were among the hundreds of LIAT workers made redundant in 2020.<\/span><\/p>

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