{"id":7167,"date":"2011-01-06T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T09:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2011-01-06T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T09:33:51","slug":"desa-coalfields-estate-workers-win-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2011\/01\/06\/desa-coalfields-estate-workers-win-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Desa Coalfields estate workers win court case"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure if anyone remembers Coalfield Estate workers case.\u00a0 The issue was running for 15 years or so, and become more chronic in last 3 years. Read about the issue in 2007 her<\/strong><\/a>e (where Samy Vellu fights for the workers)\u00a0 while newer news are here<\/strong><\/a> (2009) and here<\/strong><\/a> (2010).<\/p>\n

Recently, 20 of them won a court case for unlawful dismissal. Hopefully the year 2011 bring them more happiness and better future.<\/p>\n

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Three years ago, 20 estate workers from Desa Coalfields, near Sungai Buloh in Selangor, were unlawfully dismissed by their employer.

Yesterday, they were offered compensation of RM30,000 each from their employer, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (KLKB).

All of them, aged between 25 and 54 years, were also offered a RM7,000 discount to buy a townhouse priced at RM42,000 at the same location.

The settlement was recorded by the High Court in Shah Alam, before deputy registrar Wan Sara Suriyati, without liberty to file afresh.

\"NONE\"The affected workers are A Chi Chill, A Rajindran, C Tharmaputeran, A Rajendran, M Sisila Kumari, R Veramma, T Muniammah, R Nanamani, T Balan, and C Vasudavy.

The others are R Lobat, N Maheswary, T Sinamah, K Parivadi, P Seethai, M Maheswaran, R Muniamah, R Mohan Raj, R Suria Agala, and G Sanadas.

However, they will have to vacate their quarters by Dec 20 and stop all suits, claims, actions and demands that they had filed with the Industrial Court.

KLKB had in February filed action to evict them from the quarters, in addition to seeking special and general damages.

The workers filed a counter-claim, stating they had been unlawfully dismissed.

Lawyer M Manoharan (left)<\/em>, who is also Kota Alam Shah assemblyperson, represented the workers while KLKB was represented by S Mathavan, Nur Hafizah and Co.

Manoharan said the workers were elated with the settlement and have also decided to accept the discount on the townhouse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– From Malaysiakini.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure if anyone remembers Coalfield Estate workers case.\u00a0 The issue was running for 15 years or so, and become more chronic in last 3 years. Read about the issue in 2007 here (where Samy Vellu fights for the workers)\u00a0 while newer news are here (2009) and here (2010). Recently, 20 of them won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[217,27,147],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-employment","tag-protest","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}