Newmont?s fired security guards demand severance pay

Forty-four former security guards of mining company PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara rallied in front of the manpower office of Nusa Tenggara Barat province, demanding a fair compensation from the mine operator, Koran Tempo reported on Wednesday.

The company?s security guards demanded a severance pay of about Rp 35 million for being fired from the company. The daily did not reveal why the security men were fired but Taufik Budiman, the coordinator of the SBSI labor organization said that they were fired because they filed their complaints to the local manpower office.

The security guards complained that they had never received their welfare allowance even after working in the company for four years.

"We will stay in the (manpower) office, until the payment is made," one of the fired security guards said. (*)