Mfone Employees Demand Unpaid Salaries
More than 100 former employees of the bankrupt mobile telephone company Mfone protested outside the firm’s shuttered offices in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding that they receive salaries for working the month of February despite the company having already gone out of business. … Mar Samoeun, 64, an administrative worker for Mfone who took part in the protest, said he had been at the company for 19 years and that he and nearly 1,200 staff working in Phnom Penh and in the provinces were asking that Mfone pay them for the month of February. “I am old now and can not really find another job, so I need my last payment to feed my family,” he said. …
