{"id":21965,"date":"2018-11-25T21:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=21965"},"modified":"2018-11-26T00:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T04:05:20","slug":"pm-tells-observer-staff-to-seek-legal-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-tells-observer-staff-to-seek-legal-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Tells Observer Management To Pay Staff Their Severance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne is advising staff of the Observer Media Group to take urgent action to ensure that they are not disenfranchised with the planned closure.<\/p>

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The company will cease operations on November 30, 2018 it has told staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are growing concerns over how the company has calculated its severance to the over 60 employees.<\/p>

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“So the issue to me is how the staff of Observer Media Group can protect their interest,” Browne said on Pointe FM which he claims he founded but does not own.<\/p>

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The prime minister said he is concerned about reports regarding the calculation of severance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My understanding too is that they are giving one day per month severance, so you have staff ending up with $800,” Browne said.<\/p>

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“My advice to the staff of the Observer Media Group is that they need to get legal advise and to pressure the Derrick’s to honour<\/g> their commitments to them. They should not allow them to offer them any sort of credit they should pay them up front,” the prime minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said severance payments should be the company’s primary obligation.<\/p>

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“If you selling a company, the first thing you should do istry to get enough money to cover your severance payments.”<\/p>

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He wants the staff of Observer to make haste and head to the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Because remember what they did was to strip out to assests<\/g> of OMG and put it in a new entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So if that is the case the staff should go to court, get a judgment and get the assets of Observer Publications before they transfer those assets into a new entity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are reports that two staff members of Observer will create a new entity out of the ashes of the OMG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am calling on the Derrick’s to pay the staff their severance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Browne is threatening to review the license of the company and its relationship with APUA “because it means you are not trustworthy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, “whatever we have to do to join with the staff to make sure you pay them we are going to do it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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