Former LIAT Workers told to choose Direct Access to Severance Funds or Union Negotiations

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LIAT Staff at recent meeting with union in 2020

Former LIAT employees awaiting severance payments now have the option to access their funds from the receiver directly.

The government proposed a 32% compassionate payment in cash and bonds, but few have accepted, preferring union negotiations.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne clarified that negotiations are closed, and once LIAT 1974 is liquidated, the offer ends as LIAT 2020 takes over.

Chief of Staff Lionel Max Hurst noted those choosing direct access cannot challenge the government for outstanding payments.

If funds are unavailable, the government offers land and scholarships for former workers’ children.

The government denies liability, citing an inability to afford owed millions. Despite government statements, the union persists in pressuring for resolution.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. This might be normal somewhere in the Eastern block even Russia but here in the Caribbean this amount to criminality giving workers an ultimatum but all the rest of workers in Antigua who is saying this can’t happen to me be warned.

  2. Nasty wicked Gaston Browne. He boasts repeatedly that his young wife is a multi millionaire yet he laughs at and neglects the plight of poor hard working LIAT workers. People who worked and toiled for years while Minister Maria is the most absent government worker. We the LIAT employees shall NEVER EVER forget you Gaston and the wicked ABLP!!!!!

  3. Who was/ were the owner(s) of LIAT? Was it the government of Antigua and Barbuda? Who had access to and controlled the finance/accounts of LIAT? Who were the benefactors of LIAT while it was in full operation? These questions keep popping up in my mind every time I hear of the plight of the LIAT former workers.

  5. Giving the former LIAT employees this ultimatum without any particulars is crap. 32% in cash and bond yes. But what percentage of that 32% is cash and how much is bond. Come on PM stop taking people for fools. Further I don’t yet have a child so what child of mine will get land if the cash is unavailable. Make this make sense

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