By Ismaila Sonko
The Staff of Labranda Coral Beach Resort and Spa yesterday embarked on a peaceful demonstration demanding increase in salaries and better working conditions.
They alleged the management of former Sheraton Hotel on unlawful sacking of workers, unlawful termination of workers’ contracts and poor welfare.’
The aggrieved staff said their working conditions are unbearable and not fair, the staffs were assembled at the Hotel’s gate with impressions that they wouldn’t work until the management have solved their demands.
The staff demanded for an increasement in pay, job security, unnecessary termination of contract without due process, expired contracts to be renewed, procedures of seeing doctors should be reviewed and reinstatement of the sacked staff members.
Yankuba Njie, leader of the demonstrators told The Voice that they want the management to treat them fairly, with proper contracts.
He then added that the staffers were sacked on baseless reasons and staffs are on constant monitoring and they are always scared in executing their work because of too much of eyeing on them.
Edward also said that his dismissal was baseless because he was invited to a meeting for the first time with the top management and in that meeting they were served with a paper that they should explain the reasons for the high cost.
He added that his role as a receiving clerk does not permit him that to know the cost but rather to check the quality of the products.
Mr Yenaldoyamri James, the Manager of Labranda Coral Beach Resort and Spa said that they already have all the demands of the demonstrators on paper and they will report it to the headquarters, because they cannot solve the problem in few minutes and they need time to work it out.
He urged the demonstrators to go back to work; they will come up with resolutions by the 19th of this month on the issues raised by the demonstrators.
After the discussion both the Management and the demonstrators finally agreed that they will cooperate for two weeks to give the management time to come up with a firsthand information on the highlighted demands.
He urged his colleagues to go back to work and wait for the appointed date from the management.
