No increment, small incentives being pulled – Peebles Hospital staff
Top of the list for the un-happiness said one staff is the fact that they have been very committed to seeing the new hospital meet the expected standards of the Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Ronnie W. Skelton, Chairman of the BVI Health Services Authority Bishop John I. Cline, other line mangers and the general public. “But no one seems to want to meet us quarter way, I can’t say halfway as much, just quarter way and we are here and we are unhappy. If you have a staff force that is unhappy then management should be very concerned, very concerned especially in a hospital,” said another staff.
This issue of their unhappiness became overbearing as word got around from a recent senior management level meeting that at the break of this New Year 2015 some fringe benefits that staff once enjoyed will be cut off.
“As we understand, let’s say for example we visit a doctor here and present our insurance card and it takes care of 80% of our bill the government use to absorb and pay the other 20% for us now that is what is cutting out. We were reliably informed that is what was discussed and decided upon at a management meeting and that is not right, we working here and we should get some sort of incentive,” said one staff member.
The other issue they said that shows an uncaring side of the management style at the hospital is the fact that persons coming off the streets and staff members are paying the same cost for food at the new cafeteria at the new hospital.
“That is gross, not even a 10% or 5% off for your staff, why they have to be so heavy handed with us here. This is not good, you doing everything in your power to keep your staff unhappy rather than make them comfortable so they can give you a 110% service to help Peebles raise its rating, NO they got their own infighting and strangling us the ground level workers in the process, bull,” said one.
“Putting the icing on the cake is the fact that they owing us, where is our increment that they due us for so long, where is our increments? If we aren’t getting no increment we not paying a cent for medical services other than what we paying through our insurance and despite the food here is very good we will go elsewhere and shop our food, the bakery right round the corner and they cheaper we’ll go, the Chinese, we’ll go where ever and we not promoting the hospital. Let people think and do as they so please, we not promoting anything for this hospital that’s what you get from unhappy staff.”
Contacted about the concerns of the unhappy staff, the Chairman Bishop John I. Cline said that forthwith he is going to intervene as it relates to the incentive for staff at the canteen at the hospital as he feels that much can be done for workers.
However, on the issue of then paying what their insurance does not cover, Bishop Cline said, “In terms of the deductable, the co-pay that what they term it, for insurance, the only time that the employee was not expected to pay the co-pay was when we had Atlantic Southern as an Insurer, they did not require a deductable…. When we switch to BUPA and Nagicare they have a deductable and that was communicated to the employees, that it is not BVIHSA requiring them to pay deductable, it’s really the insurance company.”
“That was done over three years ago under the last administration when they when they switched to BUPA so it has nothing to do with anything that HSA has instituted to say that we use to pay and now we don’t, it was the insurance company that didn’t require that,” said Bishop Cline.
Asked specifically if the claims of the alleged new system that the staff says will take place at the beginning of this year, he said, “No that’s not accurate.”
42 Responses to “No increment, small incentives being pulled – Peebles Hospital staff”
That hospital have wicked tops in it them only look out for them self not healthy place at all wicked all of them need move
The incompetent management serve at the pleasure of the Chinese Minister, and the Money B*sh*p
BVI PEOPLE: "These people want to kill us! NDP is not for the small man. All that money we have to pay that is not fair!"
BVIHSA Workers:" It's a shame we can't get our increments or other incentives from BVIHSA"
BVI PEOPLE: "Here we go again, NDP taking advantage of the poor local people, when will it end!"
This is hilarious! The same people that don't want to pay fees to enable HSA to in turn run the facilities and pay people, will be the first to complain about them not getting paid.
Thank you .It is nice to have a new Hospital but if you don't have qualified and experience people that knew there work every thing still remain the same. When Mr Andrew from vip came out ant tell them about what going on in the Hospital some top ndp members was p1$$ off with him they don't want to here the truth. IT have some experience workers who knew there work but it have some that just feeling there way around and they needs to find out who they are. The Hospital needs to be exploit on some of those talk shows. At the right time I will come out very bad experience who know about Peebles knew what I'am talking about so many years of madness that needs to be fix.
The Skelton and Cline will not address any of these issues.
Where is there promised of
• A higher minimum wage
• Properly funded schools (Can you believe our public school teachers have to pass the hat for basic supplies?)
• Truly universal health care (public option, anyone?)
• Tax fairness such as ending the appalling giveaway to businesses and nothing is pass down to we the consumers
• Ending the ridiculously irrational "war on drugs" and its prison-industrial-complex twin monstrosity
where is the Gun legislation as our children dies in the streets
And oh the corruption and conflict of interest
Who will be elected to replace them? Do you think you can just raise minimum wage just like that? NHI is Universal Healthcare and BVI does not have the population for the public option you speak of. You all watch too much @#$%% CNN and FoxNews then trying to apply every piece of bull#$%% to the tiny BVI. The only thing I agree with you on is the stupid war on drugs. The parents are the ones responsible for their kids being animals from a young age, not Government.
Howcome this man after 3 yrs of NDP rule jouns his NDP elected friends in finding the easy non factual way out which seems to be the norm by blaming the last Administration when only now this has become a problem 31/2 yrs later. Come on everyone knows you are a full NDP & will never be fair to VIP or any other political party. I am so disappointed.
Don't look for any help because the task the C*air was placed there to do has been completed which was to make cheddar for Chair & Minister & chinese delegation. That has been completed to the tune of millions so the C*air doesn't have no one or nothing else to be bothered with cause his task completed long time.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and without vision the people will perish and that is exactly what's happening because the lack of not poor but NO vision. Staff are victimized, disgruntled, and unhappy because of BAD & IMPROPER management, leadership, and incompetence of the vain and subhuman people who hold these positions. The whole management system needs restructuring and to be revamped. Leaders are people whom people follow, admire, who are role models, people who guides directs & have the ENTIRE ORGANIZATION @ heart no matter the nature, stature, nationality or creed, not people who are misguided and have no direction because of FAMILY, FRIENDS & GOSSIPERS. Key elements leaders should have with education & intelligence is dealing with criticisms, wisdom, the ability to act and LISTENS with humility and be passionate which they show NONE unless it's sum 1 who kisses the backs! I agree wholeheartedly with the person/s who get their satisfaction by supporting and patronizing other food establishments since staff cannot get OVERDUED INCREMENTS. "You cannot be a leader and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too" Sam Rayburn. If a man calls himself a man of God he should read 1 Timothy 6:9, Psalm 10:3, Proverbs 20:21 then he will see where and how ALL fit into that equation.
Tortola is making stride but with a bunch of ungrateful negative people and that's Local and other Nationality alike this place will forever be stuck in a Rot.
Really people........the public complains about service and quality of care and the workers who are responsible for delivering this care expect incentives.......maybe they should spend more time doing their work and stop talking.......
Strups. All u people out there just talk because u can, but none of you knows the half of what is endured at BVIHSA. NONE. See all. Them women in the top seats. Woo unto the workers. Trust me, its a slave camp in that frigging place. I see staff on the job working with chikungunya because they afraid to report sick. Now you who reading this knows the pains that thing come with. Do I need to say anymore? That virgin gorda woman is a b-itch. Kunta kinte probably turning in his grave every time she sets foot in that place. SLAVE DRIVER. The spread mouth and the ghetto diva hmm. Well I know you tired reading about them. When they make up their minds nobody and I mean nobody could tell them do differently. Peebles staff ain't had a raise since we left the damn plantation.we ain't had an increment review n nearly ten damn years. So regardless of what you out there have to say we have needs. And those needs comes in the form of bills. The last meeting we had it was said that the minister stated that he made sure the funds were there for us to get our increment. When you guys at bvi govt ranted about not getting yours last year we knew how you felt, yet here you are bashing us because we now opening our mouths.you made noise for yours and got it. We said if even half of ours we would've been grateful. Every day its something new addedto your portfolio and nothing new added to the salary. BS.tell me also why we have to pay insurance. We in the forefront for every airborne, skin borne, foot borne, and talk borne disease there is. Yet, we pay insurance. Look at the Ebola scare. If one of us contracted that WHAT!! Would they (the big ones make sure we are taken care of?). HELL NO. Fire, immigration, police, customsand the likes don't pay it. Whose job is more dangerous? We are unfaired in the BVIHSA. They basically state what they wanted annum and gets it and we get the crumbs. PEOPLE, say why you want you don't know the whole. You can talk all you want About our service because you are the real ungrateful ones. Just be honest and talk about the treatment you get when you go abroad.the TRUTH THAT IS
Nothing right will happen at Peebles unless proper management is hired and a competent Board appointed. At present we have neither. Who not buttering their own bread buttering that of their friends and family
Tell them stop hiring all kind of island ppl and put tortola people first soo many tortola complaining saying they aint cal them