The Wewak Labor office in East Sepik Province has backed fifty-five sacked cement workers in Lae with a reinstatement document.
The direction issued on Friday gives 21 days tPNG Taiheyo Cement a Japanese owned company to respond.
The group was part ofthe 140 employees that went on strike onthe 11th of Novermber 2011 due to a dispute over working conditions.
The company responded by sackingthe fifty-five employees.
The workers had trlied to get assistance fromthe Lae Labor office butthe office’s slow response promptedthem to seek assistance in anther province.
Theythen requested for a compulsory conference hearing in Wewak with Labor officers. This resulted inthe reinstatement order.
The workers say thatthe cement factory should give backtheir jobs.
Betoafter two yearsthey will have been replaced.
