The Ombudsman, Eduardo Leblanc González, attended to members of the Industrial Union of Workers of the Mining Companies of Panama (SITRAEMIP), who request the payment of their labor benefits after working for Petaquilla Gold.
Lawyers from the company Broadway Strategic Minerals SA participated in said meeting to assist in the cancellation of the amounts owed for the employer-employee contribution to more than 600 workers.
For his part, the General Secretary of SITRAEMIP, Santos Gómez González, was pleased with the intervention of the Ombudsman who filed a complaint for the violation of his rights.
I accompany the Ombudsman, the director of Protection of Human Rights, Julio De Gracia, who informed that a meeting will be held soon in the province of Coclé with the parties on the progress regarding the claims.
