WORKFORCE DAY
Taimua mai le laina o le solo fa’aaloalo a le aufaigaluega uma a le malo ina ua pasi le vasega o leoleo, o le Matagaluega o A’oga ma le latou ta’ita’i le fa’atonusili Dr Ruth Matagi Tofiga. [ata: Gov’s Office]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG’s Workforce Day took place today, prior to Labor Day, which is Monday.
Monday is an ASG and federal holiday with non-essential gov’t employees on break and banks and the post office closed. Meanwhile many local businesses will be open featuring Labor Day sales across...
What a great gift the governor is giving the Territory’s labor force — proposed legislation to increase the salaries of governor and lt. gov. — $15,000 and $10,000 respectively. He’s citing inflation and the top leaders of the territory not receiving a pay raise in a long time.
The timing of this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “As employees, you are giving up your lives to serve our people — that is your sacrifice,” declared Lydia Faleafine-Nomura, the US Interior Department’s local field representative, in her keynote address at last Friday’s Workforce Day, under the theme: “Sacrifice for A...


![Some participants in Workfoce Day 2016. [SN file photo] Some participants in Workfoce Day 2016.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/workforce_day0346.jpg?itok=_E7RbsNP)
![US Department of Interior local field representative, Lydia Faleafine Nomura waving at last Friday’s parade, or pass-in-review, at Veterans Memorial Stadium for the 6th annual Workforce Day celebration. She was the keynote speaker. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Lydia Faleafine Nomura](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lydia_workforce_20963.jpg?itok=vQLghZrX)