Dipcon agrees to pay over $5M in severance to former workers

Dipcon Engineering Services Limited yesterday agreed to start paying out over $5 million in severance it owes to 24 former employees by the end of next week even as complaints continue to be made against the company to the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Ministry of Social Protection.

As Junior Minister Simona Broomes was finalising the agreement in her Brickdam office with company officials yesterday, she learnt that there were a group of aggrieved employees outside.

The group, made up of six current and former workers, was later invited to join the meeting, where it was revealed that