Latest update April 12th, 2025 5:05 AM
Disappointed about the three or more months without pay
Dear Editor,
With a heavy heart I am writing this letter.
I am a single parent with three children. For the past four months, I have been employed by the Ministry of Legal affairs. When we (the staff) inquire about our salary, we are given an indefinite response.
Don’t they have consolidated funds? How do they expect us to get by on a day to day basis with such uncertainty?
Before we assumed duty, some of us were working and our bills were being paid.
The world doesn’t stop for such uncertainties; bills still have to be paid, our children still have to go to school, food and other miscellaneous expenses still have to be paid.
We cannot tell the social worker or the welfare officer that we don’t have anything to send our children to school.
Working three months without pay can be understandable and when those three months are up we are certain about our salary, but not when the three months are up and questions are asked and we aren’t getting any certain answer.
It is very unfair because some of us have someone to assist us and some of us don’t. We are trying to earn an honest living and that too is very difficult. The Government needs a better payment system in place.
I am very disappointed and frustrated.
Yours Respectfully,
(Name Withheld)
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