Former Mfone Staff Enter Second Day of Protests

About 300 former employees of bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone continued to protest yesterday outside the company’s closed Phnom Penh offices, demanding severance payments totaling $4.4 million for 1,092 workers. … But Vong Savan, deputy secretary-general of the Labor Dissolution Commission at the Ministry of Social Affairs said the government is unable to help the protesters because Mfone had appointed an administrator who is in charge of its debts. “The government is unable in intervene,” he said. …

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