Staff went on strike as of 8am this morning and plan to extend to a week if responses to two petitions are not met by management.
Mathew Som, a spokesperson on behalf of staff, spoke to Loop PNG from Lae saying that strike is over pay rise increments and staff overworked without being compensated.
He said firstly, staff salary increments were made by a toea or two annually, which they say is not right since the Bank of PNG has ceased circulation of the one toea and two toea coins.
Staff want salary increments to be increased to around 50 toea or more.