According to education minister Darin King, employees at College of the North Atlantic in Qatar will see their contracts honoured, as it would appear, with the mistaken salary numbers in them.
"It's not their issue or their fault as to why the college made an error and entered into an agreement that they ought not to have. So we'll honour the contracts," King said.
But reports from Qatar quote the College president there - Enid Strickland - as saying:
She said new contracts with the correct salaries were signed at a meeting with the staff yesterday.
“This only affects a limited number of faculty members and some support staff,” said Strickland, adding “and now we have discussed the situation with them and signed their new contracts, everyone is fine.”
So when King said that contracts would be honoured, did he mean the old contracts or the new ones signed apparently on Wednesday, two days after King said what sure looks like the old contracts that existed at the time would be honoured?
To anyone else it sure looks like a case of two completely different stories.
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h/t to comments by One Woman on another post in the ongoing Qatar story.
