Laborers win 3.37m yuan in compensation

Fifty-two laborers who were stranded in Romania last year have won 3.37 million yuan in compensation in a suit against a Beijing job agency, a judge said on Thursday.

The agency, Zhongqi International Trading Co Ltd, has been ordered by Fengtai district court to return the intermediary fee of 50,000 yuan a person, and the compensation fee of about 14,000 yuan a person, to make up for the income lost during the laborers' jobless period.

The company said it would appeal to a higher court.