Fendell – Deputy Labor Minister for Planning and Manpower Development, Atty. Phil Tarpeh Dixon has urged contractors and employees across Liberia to put passion for their jobs ahead of greed for huge salary.
Report by Willie N. Tokpah, [email protected]
Speaking at the induction of a new leadership of the University of Liberia Staff Association in Fendell, Dixon said the issue of high salary is not the basis for earning recognition at various workplaces but commitment and duty in work performance.
“We expect you to do work to be recognized for and satisfied to do and not on the basis of earning huge salary. Work, your work moves your bosses to doing more in improving the compensation or incentives or promoting you,” Minister Dixon said.
On the other hand, Dixon believes it is incumbent upon bosses to put in place mechanism that will move their employees to do more, stating that salary cannot do it all.
Although he sees passion as a driving force to encourage bosses at workplaces, the Deputy Labor Minister also mentioned educational advancement as a cardinal aspect that can put people in better position to perform excellently.
He stressed the name that staff at the UL begin to identify new talents that will showcase the kind of values they uphold.
Minister Dixon then called on the staff at the state-run university to prioritize economic freedom if they intend to help government transform Liberia by using their individual talents to create a change.
At the same time, the President of the University of Liberia Staff Association James M. Siato said salary disparity, Indecorous working condition and change of employees’ status are sticky issues that still remain pertinent at the institution.
According to him, the UL administration must now see reason to address what he termed as “age-old-problem” confronting staffs at the institution.
Siato promised to promote the interest of individual staff members at the state run university, by reintroducing a loan program that could provide them building materials and domestic loan.
“We will reintroduce the staff loan in all forms such as rice, domestic loans, bank and building materials with a minimum collection,” Siato said.
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