Workers, management at loggerhead in Unilever

The Hetauda-based multinational company that is closed due to labour unrest has been incurring Rs 4 million loss every day since last one week.
Efforts to open the Unilever Nepal that is one of the listed multinational company has not been successful since last eight days as the workers have shut down the company putting forth various demands including salary increment.
The Industrial and Labour Committee including local political parties and their leaders have not taken any substantial initiative to settle the prolonged industrial dispute.
Issuing a press release today, different parties and their respective local leaders have requested the agitating workers and company management to sit for talks to seek an amicable solution.
Unilever Nepal is incurring a staggering loss of Rs 4 million per day due to the closure, according to the company that is listed in the share market and paying the investors' good return every year.
The company's management has been refusing to sit for talks claiming that the demands put forth by the workers are irrelevant. It has said that it will sit for talks only after the factory is allowed to function, first.
Due to the increasing labour problems and unnecessary tussles between workers and management, the cabinet had taken a decision to establish the Industrial and Labour Committee with the participation of various stakeholders a month ago.
Earlier, talks held between the management and agitating workers, which was mediated by Labour Office Hetauda's chief Arjun Kumar Chaudhary, had failed to yield any concrete outcome.