"Local Workers on Lao-China Railway Say They Have Gone Without Pay For Months", 21 April 2020

Up to 30 Lao laborers working on a nearly completed railway project that will connect landlocked Laos with China say that they have not been paid in three to four months, because their Chinese employers left the area and went home early this year amid the spread of the coronavirus.

Workers, especially heavy truck drivers, in Na Mo district of northwestern Laos' Oudomxay province [said] that their Chinese bosses have not given them a reason for the salary delays or informed them when they will be paid.
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Workers are concerned about the delayed compensation because they do not have enough money now to buy food, pay their rent, or purchase essential items for their families, the truck driver said.

Though some workers want to quit their jobs, they are putting up with the situation because they have nowhere else to turn for employment, he said.

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