Hanoi: Owing workers' wages for 7 years, Haprosimex continues to avoid reconciliation

According to the request for mediation of the labor dispute between the labor collective and Haprosimex Group Joint Stock Company regarding salary payment, the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of Hoan Kiem District ( Hanoi ) organized a mediation session on the afternoon of August 29.

Previously, this unit had sent a document inviting employees and legal representatives of Haprosimex Group Joint Stock Company to the office to conduct mediation.

However, the business representative was not present. Therefore, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Hoan Kiem district could not conduct the labor dispute mediation session.

In the coming time, this unit will continue to send documents to employees and company representatives to conduct mediation.

Discussing further about this, an officer from the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Hoan Kiem district said that the mediation between business representatives and employees is a process to find a common voice.

According to regulations, if after two conciliation meetings the enterprise does not come or cooperate, the conciliation will be deemed unsuccessful. This is a stepping stone for the employee to file a lawsuit in court.

Hà Nội: Nợ lương công nhân 7 năm, Haprosimex tiếp tục trốn hòa giải - 1 — Workers are waiting wearily for the settlement of 9 months of unpaid wages (Photo: Hoa Le).

Talking to Dan Tri reporter, Ms. Dao Thi Hang, a worker of the company, said that the workers are looking forward to the day of reconciliation.

"I had to take a day off from my sewing job. We had to travel from Gia Lam district to Hoan Kiem district since noon to attend the dialogue. However, we were all disappointed when the business side did not come," Ms. Hang said indignantly.

It is known that Ms. Hang submitted a petition to the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Hoan Kiem district in mid-August. A week later, she received an invitation to a labor dispute mediation session.

At the end of 2016, Haprosimex One Member Co., Ltd. (Ninh Hiep Industrial Park, Gia Lam, Hanoi) restructured and transformed into Haprosimex Group Joint Stock Company. At that time, the company's director and accountant were arrested. This unit owed the bank, could not proceed with equitization, and was forced to transfer asset management rights to Vietnam Debt Trading Company Limited (DATC).

In October 2016, the company’s employees received notice of temporary layoff. The transition process was complicated, and seven years have passed, and the rights of the employees have not yet been resolved.

Ms. Hang is one of more than 50 workers of the Haprosimex knitting factory under Haprosimex Group Joint Stock Company who were owed wages for 9 months, from November 2016 to July 2017.

At the recent meeting between representatives of Haprosimex Group Joint Stock Company and employees, regarding the employees' salary arrears, the company representative stated that it would be fully paid in the fourth quarter of 2023.

However, on July 4, Haprosimex Company called workers to receive 9 months of unpaid wages. More than 50 workers were happy because their 7-year-old problems were resolved.

However, the workers were forced by the company to receive 50% of the salary owed according to internal salary data (equivalent to the regional minimum wage). To receive that amount, the workers had to sign a confirmation on the working minutes prepared by the company, committing not to ask Haprosimex to pay any other amount of money, not to make any complaints or lawsuits regarding salary and labor regime between the workers and Haprosimex.

Therefore, many workers did not agree to receive the above amount.

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