Workers deserve to be paid their salaries on time

If the situation does not change soon, COTU should take up the matter and urge the government to pay its workers on time. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Most civil servants did not enjoy the Easter holiday as a result of delayed payment of their March salaries.

There have been threats of a go-slow as a result, and the government should do everything in its power to stop the situation from degenerating into street demonstrations as a way of forcing it to honour its end of the bargain in the employer-employee contracts.