Marlene Testa
Feb 24,2015
mtesta@laestrella.com.pa
After repeated breaches of the mining company Petaquilla Golds payment due nine fortnights, mutual agreements, we tenths third month and other employment benefits, the Government will award a solidarity bond to 604 project workers.
The Minister of Labor and Workforce Development (Mitradel), Luis Ernesto Carles, then pointed to a meeting with a group of workers that palliative consist of a fortnightly payment of $ 100, which will last for two months, and a bonus School $ 50.
Similarly, Carles said that once the company made effective labor liabilities owed, the subsidy is withdrawn.
It was agreed to deliver the first bond next February 26 at the premises of Mitradel.
The mining company owes $ 5.8 million to its workers from September to November 2014, according to estimates Mitradel.
Yesterday, Petaquilla announced that the administration gave the concession known as Molejón in Donoso, a Sandstone Properties, SA