Following months of consultations among the country’s public sector, regarding their wages and livelihood, Liberians under the banner, the Consortium of Public Workers of Liberia on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, petitioned the Government of Liberia, both the Executive and the Legislature to act promptly. Presenting the petition to the Legislature was the president of the organization, Moibah Johnson who accordingly maintained that Liberian workers are not being treated fairly, adding that Liberians are working and yet living in property. He added that they have worked over the years but stay cannot realize anything, nothing to sure in their retirement age; attributing it to one of the main reasons the country is undeveloped. Commenting further, the CSAL President also reminded members of the Legislature that the issue of low salaries has over the years impeded the growth and development as citizens and most of all, not to mention the Harmonization Process that was introduced by the George Weah- led government. Mr. Johnson also explained that in a bid to enroll in the International Monetary Fund ( IMF), the Government of Liberia took several measures to ensure the employees across government have equitable distribution in salaries and one was the reduction of its huge wage bill that is presently linked to Civil Servant salary including the 90 percent through the National Remuneration and Standardization Act of 2019, which accordingly, aims at standardizing pay and benefits for employees from across the three branches of government. He said since the Harmonization in 2019,the Consortium has observed with shock and dismay, the true intent of the Harmonization has never been achieved and their members are feeling the adverse economic impact on a month- to- month basic, coupled with the hard inflation and the daily depreciation of the country’s domestic currency across the country. Mr. Johnson further mentioned that in March 2019, the Government embarked on pay and payroll system reform initiative involving a comprehensive public sector personnel management restructuring and a new pay grade system in order to standardize wages and rationalize salaries across all spending entities. According to him, the initiative led almost 70,000 civil servants’ salaries being cut by 40 percent without any clear wages reduction reform policy measure, stating that it is upon this backdrop that the Consortium of Public Sector Workers of Liberia, having read and analyzed the research on both the Harmonization and the Personnel Income Tax, observed with shock and dismay, the progressive tax system is gradually killing them, leaving them with nothing to call income as public sector workers. “We have also examined how the Harmonization process was done across GOL and identified existing gaps and we are therefore resolved in issuing this joint resolution in requesting the government of Liberia through the executive branch and the Legislature to revisit the Harmonization process and amend the Liberia Revenue Code, section 8 for economic growth and quality service delivery in the public sector,” he noted. Receiving the resolution on behalf of the Legislature, both the Senate and the House of Representatives, was Representatives Muka Kamara of Montserrado District 14, and Senator J. Gbleh-bo Brown of Maryland County, who accordingly promised to present the resolution before full plenary in order to ensure that the right thing is done for the betterment of the country.