Mfone Parent Firm to Consider Workers Demands

The company behind the defunct mobile operator Mfone has told its former employees that it will consider covering millions of dollars allegedly owned to them in severance pay. … The former employees have vowed to keep protesting until they are paid the $44.44 million to which they say they are entitled in severance cash after Mfone declared bankruptcy in January. In a response to a May 13 letter from employees asking for a loan to cover their losses, Singaporean-based Shenington Investments- a subsidiary of Thailand’s ThaiCom- wrote, “We are in principle open to exploring how we can assist in such [a] request.” The letter from Shenington Investments, dated May 22 and obtained yesterday, is signed by the company’s managing director Chutidej Printhitipa, and says that any assistance by the company would have to be in line with laws and approved by the administrator and the Cambodian courts. …

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