Metro Mass Transit Company Limited’s management has assured employees that they will receive their August salaries by Friday, October 14, 2022.
This comes after the company’s employees walked off their jobs in protest of the two-month salary delay.
The employees are also demanding that their Managing Director be fired, blaming him for their current situation.
Metro Mass’s Head of Communications, George Asante, told Citi News that the workers’ leadership would be engaged to call off the strike while payment processes were underway.
“By Friday, we will be able to close the August payroll, leaving only one month’s salary arrears.” I don’t think it’s fair for workers to use current economic difficulties to demand the firing of their Managing Director.”
He also urged strikers to consider the company’s difficulties.
Mr. Asante mentioned how rising fuel prices have impacted the company’s revenue generation.
The company is unable to raise fares in order to keep up with fares.
Metro Mass Transit has 187 buses, which are expected to generate enough revenue to employ 2,000 people nationwide.
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“The Managing Directors are not always the issue. “The issue is about the company’s challenges, and the challenge we are facing is the inadequacy of the buses,” Mr. Asante explained.
He also bemoaned the company’s inability to mobilise sufficient funds for statutory payments.
“Our gross salary wage bill is GH3.9 million.” We can’t mobilise enough people with the 187 buses we have to pay for these things and other overhead costs.”
Metro Mass Transit Limited employees are staging a sit-in in protest of what they call the company’s management’s five years of incompetence.
Apart from the salary arrears, the striking employees claimed they had other issues with the way the company was run.
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