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Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a Jan. 05, 2023 Executive Order, Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga established the government’s Overtime and Compensatory Time Policy — which states “is not to incur overtime or compensatory time if avoidable.” However, when unavoidable, the use of overtime and compensatory time...
LBJ hospital triage tents
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some local nurses working at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center claim that they are working 24 to 48 hours shifts due to the shortage of nurses at the territory’s only medical facility. Now nurses are calling out to government leaders to please consider the issue of the...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last week’s cabinet meeting, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga re-emphasized that no overtime is to be processed unless it first gets his pre-approval and he urged cabinet members to the comply with this administration’s long standing policy. In a Nov. 17th memo to cabinet...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Instead of paying overtime — with some overtime payments as much as $2,000 per person — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga wants directors to “bring in new people” to work in ASG agencies, with the millions of dollars in federal money garnered by American Samoa since the COVID-19...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government employees making $50,000 or less a year will be entitled to overtime pay for work outside of their usual 40-hours per week for work involving the coronavirus declaration. Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced the “benchmark” overtime pay for COVID-19 during the...
Photo of LBJ Hospital sign
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa News was contacted early last Friday by a disgruntled nurse claiming that her colleagues were about to "walk out" because they were upset that their overtime hours were not included in their paychecks that were issued that day. Apparently the overtime hours for...
American Samoa Executive Office Building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than $500K was paid out in overtime hours for American Samoa Government employees who worked during the recovery efforts following Tropical Storm Gita early this year, according to a revelation in the fiscal year 2018 performance report for the Department of Human...