"Workers want full pay during Trinity Apparels factory closure", 20 August 2021

Workers at Trinity Apparels want full pay during the four-month shutdown…

The factory will be closed for four months from mid-August to mid-December.

During the temporary closure, the employer said it would provide 100,000 kyat in loans to workers and pay the remaining two years' salary…from November 2020 to August 2021. The factory did not accept the workers' request for a loan…

During the four-month period when the factory will be temporarily closed, 420 workers accepted the payment of 100,000 kyats and two years' salary from their employers and signed an agreement on August 14.

Factory workers want the wages to be paid in accordance with the law during the temporary closure, and leaders of the Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (IWFM) are assisting.

[Translation via Google Translate]