Hundreds of workers laid off in Pekalongan

Hundreds of workers laid off in Pekalongan

PEKALONGAN, Central Java: Several garment and fishery
companies in Pekalongan laid off hundreds of their workers
recently due to slow business, an official with Pekalongan
mayoralty administration has said.

"The workers were laid off in order to prevent those companies
from bankruptcy," said Sofyan Adnan, the head of Pekalongan
Manpower Office, on Monday.

Among the garment companies that dismissed their workers were
PT Varistek, PT Tekstil Sentra Umum and PT Lojitek. They have
dismissed 40, 14 and 53 workers respectively.

Meanwhile, fishery companies PT Tirta Raya Mina and PT Maya
Food have laid off 30 and 51 workers respectively.

Adnan expected that the companies would pay the worker's the
severance payments that they were entitled to.

Pekalongan, a city located in Java's northern coastal area,
has been a prominent center for garment production and fisheries
in the country. -- Antara