~given 35% salary increase in a new function, says workers should wait as she reviews the proposal to secure the company’s financial health.~
PHILIPSBURG:— The Supervisory Board of NV GEBE is deemed incompetent since they are accommodating the demands of the recently appointed interim manager Sharine Daniel who have been demanding more money to cover additional expenses she has to incur since taking up the new position. The meeting with the SBOD is expected to reconvene on Friday as Daniel will be providing legal tax advice on her projected expenses.
SMN News has been reliably informed that Daniel was asked to register a sole proprietorship for her to be appointed interim manager. The SBOD then froze her permanent position as an employee of the company and granted Daniel a 35% salary increase, with the sole proprietorship Daniel would have to pay her social benefits such AOV, taxes, pension premium in its totality, taxes on the company car and other related taxes to the sole proprietorship.
It is understood on Monday night during the board meeting where Daniel was invited she demanded that the board give her more money since she has to pay the additional taxes. The source said that Daniel already signed off a 15-page agreement where the salary increase has been mentioned but now the board chose to accommodate her with her additional financial demands.
It should be noted that in September 2016 the former Supervisory Board of Directors had taken a decision to fire Daniel because she agreed to Naf 2000.00 salary cut when the board proposed to hire her on a permanent basis. However after that agreement was signed Daniel lawyered up and decided to challenge the SBOD in court, back then Daniel was receiving NAF18,000.00 net salary, which was reduced to Nfa16,000.00 since she would have been subjected to evaluation and salary increase annually.
Full article on SBOD and Daniel saga in 2016 here.
https://www.smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/23489-exclusive-gebe-sbod-took-decision-to-fire-gebe-internal-auditor-sharine-daniel.html
On Tuesday Daniel in a press release said that NV GEBE has encountered its challenges just like all other companies where its revenues have been affected in a negative way since the pandemic. She said that the Collective Labor Agreement (CLA) with the unions has been in negotiation since post-IRMA. Thus she informed the SMCU that the legal and financial review is required to ensure that NV GEBE can comply with the cost increasing proposals in the new CLA this she said must be done to ensure the financial health of the government-owned company is safeguarded.
While Daniel is busy trying to bleed the company for more money, she is willfully holding back the signing of the CLA that will benefit NV GEBE staff that are working for a small salary and living month to month especially with the passing of hurricane Irma in 2017 and the effects of COVID-19 in 2020.
Staff members that are working to keep the electricity on while an engine is damaged have to make do with what they are getting while the newly appointed interim manager bleed the company.
The former management team got an offer from WASILLA in June 2020 to purchase an engine while getting a second one free for NV GEBE this offer was made while Daniel held the post of chief financial auditor and it was never taken up Today, NV GEBE has to dispensed over a $1M to repair the broken crank shaft that will eventually spear the island the constant power outages.
