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SGMA CORNER
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Posted on Jan 08 1999
There have been some questions recently received by our general membership regarding the actual amounts due for members of the Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association.
Monthly dues, based upon the SGMA articles and by-laws, are based solely upon the individual company assigned quota ceiling level for the number of non-resident workers, as determined by the CNMI Department of Commerce.
The dues do not include temporary employees, resident workers and sub-contract employees, as well as the anticipated newly assigned levels for non-resident workers.
The only time SGMA dues would change is if the ceiling of non-resident workers assigned per garment factory has been adjusted by the CNMI government.
It says that factories who have failed to achieve full capacity are exempted from due payments, like the Hyunjin, which has never realized the number of non-resident workers as a result of the recent moratorium on hiring.
“It was decided that once the Code of Conduct was adopted, all new factories that had not paid their membership dues, would begin to pay them. This includes US CNMI Development and American Pacific Textile,” said a press release issued by the association.
Accordingly, when the Senate passes the re-evaluated quota legislation, and when the governor signs it into law, all SGMA members will have a new membership fees payable based upon the new assigned non-resident worker levels.
