Kemy Loo Pinzón
kloo@laestrella.com.pa
The government delivered yesterday, Thursday 26 February, a total of $ 90.600 by way of a bonus to Petaquilla Gold 604 workers who are owed 10 fortnights of his salary.
Each of the 604 workers were given $ 150. According to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development (Mitradel), Samuel Rivera Valencia, government, concerned about the situation of workers and their families, voluntarily promised to deliver on Thursday the first of four biweekly bonds $ 100 each worker.
He added that the first payment was added a bonus for $ 50 that will help parents to acquire part of their children's school supplies for the start of classes next March 2.
In the statement of Mitradel it clear that if the company pays back wages before the next three fortnights, immediately suspend the payment of the bonds outstanding by the State, which were conceived as 'social assistance', compared to the plight confronting these Panamanians for breach of the company.
According audits are $ 5.8 million which Petaquilla Gold owed wages.
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