More than a thousand factory workers in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province walked off the job without warning on Monday after years of vainly waiting for their social insurance contributions to be confirmed.

Le Thi Phuong Hong, director of the Rattan Processing and Export Company (Rapexco), said the delay had led the workers to suspect the company of stealing their payments instead of forwarding the money to the Khanh Hoa Social Insurance Agency.

Hong, who has 2,401 workers on her payroll, blamed the agency for the tardiness.

Bui Dang An from the agency explained that his office only had two people to stamp workers’ social insurance and health insurance books, which number around 620,000 at present.

Pham Xuan Danh, vice chairman of the Khanh Hoa Labor Union, gave the insurer and Rapexco two days to make a list of workers who had paid their insurance premiums.

He said this would put their minds at ease and get them back to work.

Source: Thanh Nien, Tuoi Tre