LATE payment of salaries is affecting lecturers at the Lutheran School of
Nursing in Madang. A group of 16 frustrated lecturers expressed concerns about the late payments. College principal Vitus Amugar confirmed this, saying the late payment of lecturers’ salaries started in December. “It’s not a problem we faced one or two weeks ago, we have had this problem since last December.” Midwifery coordinator Elizabeth Natera said they had enquired about the delay but officials in the Health Department’s salaries section only gave them excuses. “Sometimes they said there was an internet problem with Telikom and BSP and our cheques could not be processed, or that there was a software problem or there was no money to pay us,” she said. Natera said as lecturers in church-run colleges, they were paid as casuals by the Health Department. “It’s a nationwide problem affecting all lecturers teaching in church-run institutions and we wonder if the health secretary and the minster are aware of this.” Natera claimed church-run institutions contributed 80% of the services to communities with government institutions meeting the rest. She said the Health Department previously released cheques to the college for their salaries. She said the problem started when the department stopped releasing the cheques and started paying them directly into their back accounts. Amugar added the lecturers had families and needed money to meet their daily needs. Comments are closed.
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