Employees demand salary payment

JAMBI: Some 80 employees of financially strapped Berkah Husada Hospital been protesting this week over unpaid salaries for the past four months.

The demands came after all the hospital's employees were suspended indefinitely due to poor revenues.

Responding to the demand, the owner and the hospital's director, M. Irzal, said that the hospital management was committed to paying the employees' salary in the near future, if the hospital got donations.

Irzal said that the hospital was unable to pay their salaries due to poor financial performance. -- JP