19 protest dismissals

19 protest dismissals

BANJARNEGARA, Central Java: Nineteen former employees of the
Tulis hydropower plant project visited the local legislative
council Monday to seek help over what they called arbitrary
dismissals.

The protesters said the project manager had been unfair as
most of them, with senior high school education, had worked for
between three and nine years but had been given severance pay of
only Rp 250,000 each. Their monthly salary was Rp 183,750.

The disgruntled men demanded that the company pay them a total
of Rp 381 million because they had not yet received their meal,
medical and compensation allowances as stipulated by the Ministry
of Manpower.

The chairman of the legislative council, Amsor, said a team
would be set up to deal with the complaint.

The protesters submitted written statements, copies of which
were also sent to state-owned electricity company PLN and the
Ministry of Manpower. (wah/sur)