Happy ending for 760 SFI workers
Published on: Wednesday, September 02, 2020
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Liew (right) receiving the mock cheque from Dr Lai (3rd left) after the latter had received it from Lee (2nd right), witnessed by Dr Yusof (2nd left) and Hadikusumo (left).
SIPITANG: The 12-year plight of 760 Sabah Forest Industries (SFI) workers affected by the company’s financial problems has come to a happy ending with the out-of-court settlement of their claims for alleged unpaid annual salary increments from 1997 to 2006.As far back as 2007, a group of 1,072 employees had engaged lawyer Christina Liew (now Api-Api Assemblywoman) to represent them in commencing legal action against SFI seeking, among others, the recovery of allegedly unpaid annual salary increments due to them from 1997 to 2006.
On February 8, 2008, the SFI employees claimed an accumulated total of about RM23 million from the Lion Group. They filed their cases together through their counsel in the Labour Court in Sipitang.
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