Workers protest arbitrary firing

Workers protest arbitrary firing

JAKARTA (JP): Ten employees of a company which produces Fuji cameras in Bogor went to the office of the National Commission on Human Rights over the weekend to complain that they had been arbitrarily fired by the firm's owner.

The workers told the commission's secretary, Baharuddin Lopa, that the company's management had offered severance pay amounting to two months' wages, with another half month's salary to be given as an Idul Fitri bonus, Antara reported.

One of the workers said they turned down the offer. They are demanding severance pay amounting to five months' wages.

"Actually we still want to continue working for the company, but if the management insists on firing us, we want them pay each of us five months' wages instead of two," he said.

He expressed hope that the commission would help convince the company to cancel its decision to dismiss them. (bas)