"Giant IBIS Transport Delays Paying Legally Owed Benefits to Laid Off Union Employees", 26 May 2023

After withholding years-worth of owed wages from employees, the bus company Giant Ibis Transport reached an agreement … to comply with the labor law and pay compensation to 30 laid off union workers who have been protesting for months.

But the company has since failed to deliver the compensation by the agreed upon … deadline following an agreement signed by the company …, according to union leader Siem Morady and documents ...

“The company was due to pay us laid off workers by May 22,” Morady says. “However, the company now seems in total silence.”

The 30 Giant Ibis Transport union members say they are legally owed severance and seniority payments — allegedly amounting to well over $100,000 — which have not been provided since 80 employees were laid off ...

In negotiations, Giant Ibis Transport representative Ou Phanny — who signed the agreement on behalf of the company — told the laid off union members they would receive their withheld wages but would not be reinstated, Morady said…

… Morady and other union members accuse Giant Ibis Transport of effectively engaging in union-busting behavior. The company has also been actively recruiting new workers instead of rehiring the laid off union drivers, Morady added.

“We have urged the company to take us back to work, but the company’s representatives failed to do so,” he said. “This is real discrimination against union members”.

Ou Phanny, who identified himself as a Giant Ibis Bus manager, denied the company was discriminating against union members and said he had not acted aggressively…