MIRI: General workers in Engineering section of Miri City Council want the department to speed up their overdue overtime claims which have not be paid into their monthly salaries since last March 2011.
A mechanic who declined to be named claimed that the engineering department has not paid his March overtime claim in the last withdrawn salary.
“We never refuse to go to work even during urgent project needed during the last election but until today over overtime claims are not being paid yet,” said the mechanic appealing the department to speed up their payment.
Another general worker said this year Gawai was dull for him and his family as they don’t have enough budgets to celebrate the occasion as his overtime was not paid in the last month salary.
“We want the overdue, overtime be paid accordingly as it help us to pay our daily household needs,” he said further.
Most of the affected workers around fifty are monthly paid workers that are depending on overtime claims to support their families, said one of the workers who has been working for more that twenty years in the department.
He claimed that he and the rest of the workers submitted their overtime claims accordingly, including details and needs of works but the superior did not sign their claims immediately.
If no action are taken, all the workers will bring up the matter to higher level or even through political channel, he said further urging the superior to look into their plight urgently.