While the State Government empathises with the former SFI workers' plight, it is not sustainable for the government to solve their predicament in the long run, said Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Abidin Madingkir.
This included payment of their salaries and the Employee Provident Fund , with the latest being payment of some RM798,000 on electricity bills incurred by the former SFI workers. “While the State Government empathises with their plight, it is not sustainable for the government to solve their predicament in the long run,” he said in a statement, Monday.
The workers, he said, have been laid off by their former employer, India-based pulp, and paper manufacturer Ballarpur Industries Ltd which has been in Receivership since 2017. Pending the reactivation of the mill by a new concessionaire, the former workers have been advised to look at the matter realistically, to move on and to seek alternative employment.The State Government had imposed a conditional requirement for the new concessionaire to set up operations within two years.
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