Factory refuses worker's claim

Factory refuses worker's claim

JAKARTA (JP): The management of PT Truba Raya Trading Factory Shoes has denied local newspaper reports that one of its female workers, Rosidah, miscarried after she was forced to stand in the sun as punishment for taking time off work.

"We did punish several workers for not coming to work for a couple of days. But no one had a miscarriage," the company's personnel manager Sjafri Madjid said yesterday.

He acknowledged, however, that the punishment was part of the factory's policies primarily intended to instill a high degree of discipline into the workers.

Sjafri said Rosidah's husband had told him that his wife had a miscarriage weeks before the punishment.

"She lied when she filed a complaint with the police," he said, "She also gave a false report to the Bogor Office of the Manpower Ministry." (bas)