The Sierra Leone Airport Authority (SLAA), now SUMMA International Airport staff cries heavily for their terminal benefit and compensations.
Under cover reporter gathered by Africa24 intimated that letters of termination were issued in January 2023 to over four hundred staff without lieu of notice according to the Employment Act of 2023. Section 81 Subsections (4) where a decision to terminate their service was taken, such termination without notice should generally be with notice or wages in lieu of notice.
Termination without notice should be reserved only for gross misconduct. Speaking to Abu Mayli, former worker of SLAA, he informed this medium that they were redundant in January this year, but the management is yet to fulfill their promise.
We are tired of fake promises from the Airport authority, we need our benefit, and our terminal subsidy to no avail, and we are jobless at the moment.
Zainab Kamara and others also confirmed to A24 that SLAA is unable to pay their terminal levies, adding that the management of SLAA and Summa Group of Companies are downplaying their future over the years. Noting that, Jack Massaquoi GM, is treating the situation with levity, and undermining the government who appointed him as General Manager.
“The ministry of transport and aviation is plying with our destiny. I have served the institutions for 15 years, but my condition of service is appalling,” She said.
In another sad development, the manager of the Sierra Leone Airport Authority, Jack Massaquoi when contacted on +23276316386/+232 77 316386 on August 23, 2023 refused to talk to Africa24 newspaper on the subject matter regarding the benefit and compensations of redundancy crisis at the Airport.