Protests against wages occurred in Kowloon Bay Harbourfront.
More than 10 contractors and worker representatives arranged a tour at noon today (6th) and put up banners to protest that a telephone company was suspected of delaying food for nearly a year, including the cost of digging ground and laying optical fiber cables. It is estimated that the salary owed is as high as 8 million Yuan, so he went downstairs to the office and asked to meet with the representative of the other party, which once alerted the police and referred him to the Labor Department for understanding.
"Hong Kong 01" is inquiring about the incident from the telephone companies involved and the Labor Department.
Mr. Qian, the contractor of one of the companies, told Hong Kong 01 that the telephone company involved hired several companies to provide telephone services in villages, including digging ground, laying optical fiber cables, and lobbying villagers to purchase services.
Qian Sheng's company is responsible for laying optical fiber cables. It started working for the other party about 5 years ago, but it has been in arrears of food payment like other hired companies since around March last year. The total amount is estimated to be as high as 8 million yuan.
They have not been able to get in touch with the telephone company involved and the intermediary company, so about 15 people arranged for a tour bus to pull a banner at the door to protest at noon today, demanding to meet with the representatives of the telephone company involved. At present, the representative of the Labor Department has arrived to understand the situation.
Qian described, "Laying optical fiber cables is a hard job, always working outdoors, and being bitten by dogs every minute", and it rains every day, and my company is owed 600,000 yuan, which is a big sum for a small company like them As a result, the colleague was owed several months of salary. If the payment is not received as soon as possible, the company is estimated to be closed down soon.
The police said that they received a report at 2:00 p.m. that at least 10 people went to a commercial building at No. 77 Hoi Bun Road, Kowloon Bay to pull a banner to recover wage arrears. The amount involved was about 8 million yuan, and they were referred to the Labor Department. "Labor dispute".
