H&m and global union federation IndustriALL on Tuesday signed off on a deal aimed at improving conditions for the 1.6 million workers at the 1,900 factories around the world filling orders for the Swedish clothing giant that will include a new oversight committee in Cambodia. ...

The high-ranking government officials and global clothing brand representatives who took part in a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday both raised concern​s​ about the media coverage of last month’s lethal repression of a nationwide strike by garment workers and its aftermath. The meeting was called ...

Hennes & mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&m garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the Stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ...

Fashion brands, including Europe’s biggest clothing retailer Inditex SA (ITX) and Hennes & mauritz AB (HmB), said they are willing to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia, backing a trade union campaign for higher wages. The chains are among eight clothing retailers that include Next Plc (NXT) and Primark that have ...

Three workers at M&aMp;V International Manufacturing Ltd’s garMent factory in KaMpong Chhnang factory fainted yesterday and about 20 others were perMitted to stop working for two More days due to poor health, a representative of their union said. Nearly 300 workers fainted at the factory last ...

About 90 garment workers began a hunger strike yesterday in front of the shuttered Kingsland Garment Cambodia, Co. Ltd. factory in Phnom Penh’s meanchey district, following weeks of protests demanding unpaid wages and severance pay. “We want the owners of Walmart and H&m to know ...

The minimum wage for garment factory workers can only be raised if international clothing brands sourcing from Cambodia pay more for their products, a ministry of Labor official said Tuesday. Khieu Savuth, chief of the ministry of Labor’s labor conflict commission, laid down the challenge a ...

About 50 workers at the M&aMp;V Manufacturing factory in KaMpong Chhnang province fainted yesterday Morning due to overwork and exhaustion in the factory’s third fainting incident this year, officials said yesterday. Noun SaM Ol, Free Trade Union representative at M&aMp;V, said that the collapse of a ...

Cambodia’s opposition leaders were questioned in court Tuesday in connection with recent protests against strongman premier Hun Sen — a case they denounced as politically motivated. Prosecutors at Phnom Penh municipal Court spent several hours grilling Sam Rainsy and his deputy Kem Sokha about unrest that ...

European mega-brands are not doing enough to ensure that the Cambodian workers who make their products receive a basic living wage, according to a report released today. Tailored Wages, an analysis of 50 of Europe’s biggest clothing brands, found that many major high-street chains are doing ...

More than 200 CaMbodian garMent workers have been hospitalized after episodes of Mass fainting at three factories this week, highlighting probleMs within an industry that is critical to the kingdoM’s fledgling econoMy. The plants all Make clothes for brands such as sportswear giants PuMa SE and Adidas. Both ...

Prime minister Hun Sen ordered ministry of Labour officials to quickly investigate and resolve problems leading to recent mass faintings at factories in Kampong Chhnang and Phnom Penh during meeting with the Council of ministers on Friday.  Last week around 300 workers fainted at m&V ...

Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Tuesday gave permission to m&V International manufacturing garment factory to suspend two Free Trade Union representatives and 13 other workers after they allegedly instigated an illegal protest earlier this month, a court official said Wednesday. Penh Vibol, provincial chief prosecutor, said ...

Negotiations mediated by provincial labour officials yesterday between management of the m&V International manufacturing garment factory in Kampong Chhnang and union representatives were successful, representatives from both sides said. The company accepted 12 demands from workers and both sides agreed to forward four unresolved issues to ...

More than 100 workers froM Kingsland GarMent CaMbodia factory, which was a supplier to U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart, deMonstrated outside the U.S. EMbassy in PhnoM Penh yesterday, appealing for help in getting their severance payMents. In DeceMber, workers found out the coMpany had declared bankruptcy ...

Increasing discrimination by factories against unions and continued poor wages in Cambodia’s garment sector have resulted in a rise in the number of worker protests, according to a report released yesterday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). According to its periodic synthesis report on working ...

MORE than 4,000 workers ended a four-day strike outside the M&aMp;V factory in KaMpong Chhnang province yesterday after the Arbitration Council intervened, issuing an order for theM to return to work. The workers, led by the Free Trade Union of Workers in the KingdoM of ...

A local legal aid NGO said yesterday that American retail giant Wal-mart and Swedish clothing brand H&m have failed to take responsibility for a shuttered supplier factory in Phnom Penh that owes its workers up to $200,000 in unpaid severance payments. The Community Legal Education Center ...

While observers yesterday accused the government of censorship for ordering radio stations not to transmit international broadcasters over the election weekend, a government spokesman defended the move. On Sunday, a ministry of Information official said the ministry had ordered local F.m. stations not to transmit Voice ...

The UN human rights agency urged Cambodia to launch an investigation into the “disproportionate” use of force by security forces last week against garment factory workers striking over pay. military police opened fire on workers protesting outside a factory in Phnom Penh on January 3 and ...