Quite some options but no solution yet for half-empty TelEm-building
PHILIPSBURG — Offices in the TelEm building on Pond Island are currently unused due to layoffs and staff reductions and the debate about what to do with it is raging on social media. One thing is for sure: More...
TelEm in a bind due to dispute with Israeli telecom giant MER
PHILIPSBURG — The TelEm Group of Companies is still in a bind due to its dispute with the Israeli telecom giant MER over a payment of more than $3 million. This story goes back to June 30, 2017, when TelEm More...
TelEm loses appeal against Israeli telecom giant
PHILIPSBURG — Telecom operator TelEm has lost its appeal against a decision that orders the company to pay MER St. Maarten BV, a subsidiary of the Israeli MER Group $561.905 and – after the presentation More...
Dispute about union-referendum at TelEm
PHILIPSBURG — Government mediator Marcellina Loblack has called a referendum at telecom provider TelEm for Wednesday, October 19. Employees have the choice to be, or not to be, represented by the Windward More...
Union fights Telem over merit max bonus
PHILIPSBURG — The court order to reinstate the group savings plan is not the only financial headache telecom provider TelEm is facing. The St. Maarten Communication Union (SMCU) is also demanding, through More...
TelEm has to reinstate group savings plan
PHILIPSBURG — Telecom provider TelEm was wrong when it terminated its group savings plan per February 1, 2021, for employees who were employed at the company before May 25, 2010. The Court in First Instance More...
Relationship between TelEm and union deteriorates
~ TelEm CEO admits to ghetto tone in letter to SMCU ~ PHILIPSBURG -- The relationship between TelEm’s Chief Executive Officer Kendal Dupersoy and Ludson Evers, the President of the St. Maarten Communication Union More...
Union threatens TelEm with legal action over savings plan
PHILIPSBURG – The St. Maarten Communication Union (SMCU) threatens to take legal action if telecom provider TelEm sticks to its decision to discontinue its contributions to the group savings plan per February More...
TelEm-BTP settlement leaves many questions unanswered
PHILIPSBURG – Telecommunication Minister Ludmila De Weever brokered a settlement between telecom provider Telem and Bureau Telecommunication and Post (BTP), according to a press release issued by the ministry. More...
The bottom line
By Hilbert Haar It cannot surprise anyone that the government’s cost-cutting measures in exchange for receiving liquidity support from the Netherlands have become the center of an epic controversy, especially More...
