Break Raya For Six
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - Hari Raya this year will be a bleak one for six employees of a local company who claim to have been unpaid since joining the establishment about two months ago.

The same woe goes for other employees who have been paid only half their salaries over the last two months.

They and their families may now be facing a miserable and depressing Hari Raya. Until now, they have not bought or ordered new clothes for their wives and children too.

One of them said he first joined the company about two months ago for a salary of $450 a month but he has not received any payment yet.

"I could understand that I did not receive anything at the end of August since I was employed for only two weeks," he said. "But to not receive anything until now has caused a lot of distress as I have to feed my family and buy milk for my children."

"Furthermore, with the Hari RayaAidil Fitri celebrations drawing closer, we need our salaries so we can celebrate the festivity like other families," he said.

He added he shed a few tears when his two children asked him a few days ago when they would go shopping to buy new clothes for Hari Raya.

"We hope our employer will understand our predicament and pay our salary within the next few days," the employees said.

"Otherwise we'll have no choice but to close our doors during Hari Raya as we may not be able to celebrate as others will," they said.

They said they were also asked to work overtime for many hours a day without any mention that they would get paid for the extra work.

"Every time we asked about our salaries our manager challenged us to quit the company. How can we resign when getting a job nowadays has never been an easy task," they asked.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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