Charity starts with you

Contributing to the development of education is among the top priority for the new telecommunications company Salary.com that is based at the Montego Bay Freezone.

During their official opening ceremony the company’s general manager for Jamaica Debra Fraser revealed that they have chosen the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) as their charitable project.

“We told our employees from the beginning that we wanted to play an active role in community development, we wanted to be able to give back to the community” the soft spoken general manager explained.

She further revealed that it was the employees were the ones who were charged with the responsibility to find a charity that Salary.com Jamaica can contribute to. Five charities were presented however; JFLL was ultimately chosen by the head of the company, based on researched data provided by the employees.

“We are going to be having staff signing up for voluntary teaching which is something that JFLL has requested and we will be making charitable donations” from time to time according to Fraser.

With a current staff complement of 40 individuals and the intent to increase that number, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce Lloyd B Smith is delighted with new business addition to the tourism capital.

“We understand that tourism is our main economic income-generator, but we want Montego Bay to diversify its business offerings and not only depend on tourism and we wish to see more meaningful enterprises similar to Salary.com that will offer employment to our skilled Jamaican”, Smith noted in an address

Salary.com (http://www.salary.com) is a leading provider of on-demand data, software and services to human resource professionals and businesses in the United States of America. The company is responsible for building on-demand software around domain knowledge in areas such as compensation, talent management, competencies and payroll, which simplifies the connection between people, pay and performance.