Bank promoters stage protest

Bank promoters stage protest

JAKARTA (JP): Dozens of sales promotion workers for Visa Standard Chartered Bank credit cards continued a sit-in for a second day yesterday, demanding commission which they said was owing to them from the bank.

The protesters, employees of the firm Jet 2000, gathered on the ground floor of the Standard Chartered Bank headquarters on Jl. Sudirman in Central Jakarta and remained there until late in the evening.

The workers called on the bank to pay their commission fees for about 100,000 customer application forms they have collected over the past month.

According to their contracts, the card promotion workers should be paid Rp 500 (22 U.S. cents) for each application form collected and a further Rp 25,000 (US$11) if the application is subsequently approved.

Executives of the bank could not be reached for comment yesterday. (bsr)