Over 1,000 SFI mill workers show up at work, plead to be paid salary arrears


KOTA KINABALU: Over a thousand factory workers in Sipitang are pleading for their salaries to be paid after a three-month delay although they have been working as usual.

Project assistant for Sabah Forest Industries Sdn Bhd (SFI) Engrit Liaw said 1,182 employees, including 38 migrant workers, were living off whatever savings they had as well as the kindness of relatives.

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