Workers stage protest over severance pay

Workers stage protest over severance pay

JAMBI: Some 120 former employees of a timber company here
staged a protest on Thursday at the office of the Jambi
provincial government, demanding the government force the company
to pay them the severance pay they say they are entitled to.

Gondo, a protester, said if the government failed to resolve
the matter, the workers would boycott the upcoming presidential
election.

The workers were dismissed by the company, known locally by
its acronym PT PSUD, in May. -- JP