Pastor prays for employers to treat employees fairly, paying NHI, SS dues
Pastor Mills offered the prayer on Sunday, September 19, 2021, at the start of the week of prayer, which was streamed live on social media.
Every since the government mandated that evidence of payments to Social Security, Inland Revenue and National Health Insurance (NHI) be shown before work permits can be approved, it has revealed that many employers are not paying in the contributions even though they are making deductions from employees.
This has resulted in some employees being denied work permits and having to leave the territory.
“We want you to forgive us, our oppression of strangers, within our lands as well as our very own people, for being merciless when we could have and should have been merciful. Help us to turn the righteous requirements of your word and practice them. Lord, by thine all-sufficient grace, help us to wash ourselves from wickedness and cleanse our hands from iniquity. Let it be our steadfast resolve to quit our evil ways, to learn to do good, to be fair and to help the poor, the fatherless and the widows,” Pastor Mills said.
Treat employees fairly
Pastor Mills continued to pray, this time for employees to be treated well.
“We decree and declare that our employers will cease oppressing those who work for them and will endeavour to treat them fairly; granting them their just dues. Grant our employers grace to right their wrongs by paying up the Social Security, the National Health Insurance funds which have been retracted from the salary of their employees so that their employees would be able to reap their benefits when they are in need of them. On the other hand, lord, we pray that employees would repent of unfair day’s work, sowing discord among workers. They would repent about theft and corrupt dealings known or unknown to their employers.”
Cleanse us
The man of the cloth urged God to move the territory to repentance.
“We have been repeatedly called to repentance; help us to repent now and save ourselves the regret of being suddenly caught out without the remedy. Let there be tears for the wrong things we have done, along with the expression of sorrow and sincere grief. Create in us clean hearts and fill us with clean thoughts and holy desires; restore us to the joy of your salvation and make us willing to obey you.”
Pastor of the New Testament Church of God International Worship Center Ishmael P. Charles, and Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and his government also offered prayers of repentance.
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19 Responses to “Pastor prays for employers to treat employees fairly, paying NHI, SS dues”
I know which course of action I prefer...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Let us agree that the system was outdated and vulnerable to abuses and riffed with all kinds of illegal activity. There are the local abuses, the down island expat abuses and yes, the white expat abuses that we have been more than aware of for a very long time. It was the great disasters of hurricane Irma and Covid that really exposed the problems, and where acknowledgment has been accepted that there is a problem, no one had any idea of just how deep and wide the problem is. What we know is that this country cannot progress with this issue not fixed. So, do we start the process of fixing it or just sit back with our heads in the sand and carry on?
The expats are crying foul because their cheating employers haven't been doing their due diligence and they can't receive their good standing certificates but it also means that the employer would never be able to hire another person who would need a work permit until all the outstanding were up to date. This puts any business that is solely dependent on expat employees in a very precarious position. Doing it the way it is being done presently at least gives the business time and an opportunity to get things in order so that the employee actually continues to have a place of employment. To demand good standing for trade license renewal at this time would result in a greater number of expats losing employment because as I stated earlier the problem is much deeper and wider than anyone could imagine and a large number of businesses would have no choice but to shut their doors.
The truth of the matter is some of these businesses should have been closed already but we are a proud people and rightly so. We find it difficult to give up on something that we have put blood, sweat and tears, heart and soul and all kind of sacrifices to create because it looks like failure. We need to understand that failure is not a bad thing but being able to recognize when it is time to get out is predominate on the success of starting over.
This is a time where all employers and employees should be re-evaluating the state of their businesses and their employment. The world after Covid is different and we must be prepared for a better and more efficient business model going forward.
Many employees do not know they have the power to sue their employers, some soft hearted men in the construction industries has just leave the island, then realized that not only could they get what they were owed in inland revenue, S/S and NHI, but they could sue for the pain and suffering they endure at the hand of the employers dishonesty. And for future impact on their lives. I hated when a man don't fight legally for just cause, this is what cause evil to spread. It got a man who own a construction business over seventeen of his employees is still owed more that six months of money, and no one has done nothing. When God solve problems it is well solved.
However, no amount of prayer will be able to solved the NHI problem in this country, caused by the county's employers, and on a lesser scale, some imployees. Also not to be overlooked, some very greedy Pastors posing as servants of God righteousness in the Christian Counsel Organisation, and not, and political leaders pretenders, that probably drip a few Crocodile's tears for deception purposes.
If we, who have made claim that that Jesus is our Saviour and Lord, would take a closer look at John 17, and fully understand Jesus' prayer, and obey His leading, our prayers for most of our personal, and neighbors problems will speedily be answered positively by God our Creator and true spiritual Father of righteousness. Pastor Calvin K. Mills, continue watching and praying.
(Note: The prayer that Jesus prayed, that has been recorded in the Bible Book of St. John 17 is the top prayer that is biblically recorded. Why is it? Because it is the summary reason of why we need to pray. Any other reason less, our prayers are void of true faith in God.