"Workers strike over closing of S. Korean-owned plant", 23 January 2019

About 300 workers went on a 24-hour strike at the CMF Myanmar Factory 2 in Hlaing Tharyar township, Yangon, after it was closed in violation of labour laws....

...The strikers said the management of the South Korean-owned factory announced...that they would close it and transfer the workers to CMF Myanmar Factory 1. Workers who didn't want to be transferred would be compensated according to labour law.

..."We are asking to keep the factory running and not to sack the workers," said the workers' leader Ma Soe Soe Aye.

Factory officials told the township arbitration panel that they didn't close the factory, but the workers could not return to factory No. 2.

A company announcement...said that workers who didn't strike would be allowed to work at their original positions and wages at factory No. 1 instead of factory No. 2.

...[T]he factory said those workers who failed to return to work...would be considered to have quit their jobs.

Factory officials rejected the demand not to fire the workers.

...[W]orkers...accused the factory of transferring workers to factory No. 1 without paying them compensation for the factory closure.

According to labour law, a factory must get permission to close from the Labour Ministry and must compensate workers.