Mr. Do Huynh Tan Thai is an excavator driver at Bao Loc Waste Treatment Plant (Bao Loc City, Lam Dong). According to Mr. Thai, the plant owes him 4 months of salary, amounting to more than 40 million VND.
As scheduled, on September 30, Mr. Thai went to Friendly Green Environment Joint Stock Company - the operator of Bao Loc Waste Treatment Plant to receive his salary.
Mr. Thai rode his motorbike more than 170km from Trang Bom district (Dong Nai) to the company to receive his salary. However, when he arrived, Mr. Thai and many other workers were told that they had not received the money. This made Mr. Thai and many other workers very upset.
“We work hard in a toxic environment but the company has been owing us wages for a long time. The company has broken its promises time and time again. I hope the authorities will intervene so that the company can pay us all the wages owed,” said Mr. Thai.
Similarly, Ms. Le Thi Mai Tuyet Trinh (from Dong Thap) is renting a room to work as a worker at Bao Loc Waste Treatment Plant. Because the company owes her more than 20 million VND in salary, she has not been able to pay the rent for the past 3 months.
“The landlord took pity on me and let me stay. I promised the landlord that I would pay when I received my salary today, but now the company continues to break its promise. I don’t even have money for daily meals, let alone pay for the rent,” Ms. Trinh lamented.
Previously, Lao Dong Newspaper reported that Bao Loc City authorities verified that from December 2023 to July 2024, Friendly Green Environment Joint Stock Company owed more than 1.7 billion VND in wages to about 70 workers.
At the meeting on September 13, the Board of Directors of Friendly Green Environment Joint Stock Company committed to the People's Committee of Bao Loc City to settle the final payment of more than 1.7 billion VND in wages to workers.
A representative of Friendly Green Environment Joint Stock Company said that starting yesterday afternoon (September 29), the company has paid the wages owed to workers.
Due to financial difficulties, we have only been able to arrange a portion of the budget, about 450 million VND, to pay more than 20 workers in departments such as the filter and incinerator.
However, these workers who are owed wages will only receive their wages until the end of June 2024.
Particularly, there are many problems with the July and August salaries in the timekeeping process. Therefore, the company needs to calculate and review to agree on payment for workers in the coming time.
The remaining workers belong to other departments such as mechanics, mechanics or workers who have quit due to lack of funds so the company is temporarily unable to pay.
