Dozens Of Health Workers Demand Sorong City Government Pay Allowances

Dozens of health workers came to the Sorong Mayor's Office to question their allowances, Tuesday (24/5/2022). ANTARA/Ernes Broning Kakisina

SORONG - As many as tens of health workers came to the office of the Mayor of Sorong to demand the local government to pay for their unfinished rights.

Three representatives from dozens of health workers met directly with Mayor Lambert Jitmau to convey their demands.

Yani Tayo as a representative of health workers said that the purpose of their visit was to ask the local government to pay for the rights of health workers which had not been completed.

"Our demands are the payment of additional employee income allowances, an additional 50 percent performance allowance on salaries since January, and incentives for handling COVID-19 for the last two months in 2021," he said, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, May 24.

He explained that today's meeting with the Mayor of Sorong has not yet received an answer. However, the mayor asked the health workers to be patient and the representatives to return next week for a meeting with the heads of services and the finance department to resolve the rights of health workers.

"The mayor asked us to come back next Monday to have a meeting with the department and the finance department. The mayor has also ordered the finance department to process the payment for the rights of health workers," he said.

Sorong Mayor Lambert Jitmau, who gave a separate statement, said that he had summoned the head of the department and the finance department regarding the delay in paying the health workers' rights and it would be resolved immediately.

There are around Rp. 2 billion for the rights of health workers to be paid. It is hoped that health workers will be patient because the current regional financial transaction system is different from before. However, the rights of health workers will still be resolved.