A group of workers laid off by a textile company – British-Thai Synthetic Textile Co. Ltd. in Samut Sakhon’s Krathum Baen District in Thailand, which reportedly went bankrupt last month, has urged their ex-employer to speed up the release of dues after it announced to make payments in eight monthly instalments, with the first to be paid on October 1 this year.
107 workers, 85 of whom are from Thailand and 22 from Myanmar, were employed at the factory, were laid off in March this year. Labourers were left in shock when the company announced lay off without any prior notification regarding ceasing of operations in view of financial losses.
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“The company had suspended all workers for three days in late February and had told them to return to work on March 1. The staff went back to work only to find the factory’s gates were shut, with an announcement saying the company had terminated operations, Nipa Mongphetch, leader of the British-Thai Synthetic Textile labour union was quoted as saying by a leading Daily in Thailand.
