FORMER employees of the Canadian mining company, Mahdia Gold, are alleging that they have worked several months for the company without pay and were then subsequently dismissed without receiving their accrued payments.The four – namely Stephen Heyliger, Rhonda Charles, Celestine Hinds and Alexander Heywood – said that Mahdia Gold owed them sums of money ranging from $1M to $289,000 since last year and has not made any attempt to pay them to date.

The four were last week picketing the Kingston office of the company in the hope of getting officials to fulfil their obligations to them, while also raising public awareness on their predicament.
The quartet are also hoping that the Ministry of Labour, to whom they have appealed for help, will expedite investigations so that they can get some measure of justice and relief.