Labor

Labor policy and administration

Domestic workers call for rights protection

Domestic workers and NGOs yesterday urged the government to ratify a UN convention to protect domestic workers’ rights and freedoms, and to regulate their working conditions. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/domestic-workers-call-rights-protection

Government approves agencies to send workers abroad

The Labour Ministry has announced the names of 77 private recruitment agencies approved to select, train and send Cambodian workers to Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39112/government-approves-agencies-to-send-workers-abroad/

One dead, 27 collapse at factory in Dangkor

In the country’s latest mass fainting episode, one garment worker died after inhaling what authorities suspect to have been toxic fumes and 27 others collapsed at the Taiwanese-owned Accasette Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on Wednesday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-dead-27-collapse-factory-dangkor

Cambodia lifts 6-year ban on maids working in Malaysia: Minister

Cambodia has lifted its six-year ban on citizens going to Malaysia to work as maids, said Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister Richard Riot on Thursday (May 25). Riot said the decision was reached ”on the spot” during his meeting with his Cambodian counterpart in Phnom Penh ...

Channel News Asia Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/cambodia-lifts-6-year-ban-on-maids-working-in-malaysia-minister-8882602

Construction workers call for baseline wage

A day ahead of May Day, the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia held a small rally outside the National Assembly demanding the inclusion of construction workers within the minimum wage framework and new guidelines for workplace safety. ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-workers-call-baseline-wage

Health cash fails workers

The Labor Ministry spent more than four billion riel on help for garment workers involved in accidents in the first three months of the year, but unions say staff are still struggling to access healthcare. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37777/health-cash-fails-workers/

Minimum wage for all in sight

A new law on a national minimum wage for all workers will come into force by the end of the year, the Labor Minister said, after union and employer representatives met officials to discuss the issue yesterday. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37653/minimum-wage-for-all-in-sight/

Factories told to cool off for hot season

According to the official announcement, manufacturers in the textile, garment and footwear industry must do more to stop employees from fainting and suffering ill health as a result of working under excessive temperatures. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36898/factories-told-to-cool-off-for-hot-season/

PM explains differences in the minimum wage

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged members of the armed forces and civil servants not to envy teachers and doctors who get higher wages, saying teachers were in the field of growing human resources. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36795/pm-explains-differences-in-the-minimum-wage/

Pension scheme set for launch

A pension scheme for people working in the private sector will be launched later this year, according to an official from the National Social Security Fund.   ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36750/pension-scheme-set-for-launch/

Thais increase migrant wages

The Thai Labor Ministry has increased the minimum wage for Cambodian migrant workers since the start of the year, however civil society officials say there are both pros and cons to the salary increase.A notice published yesterday and signed by Labor Minister Ith Samheng, who ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36474/thais-increase-migrant-wages/

Workers face sex abuse: unions

Leaders of the Cambodian Labor Confederation have urged authorities to take action against employers who harass, threaten and use violence against female garment workers.   ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36281/workers-face-sex-abuse--unions/

Pesticide causes mass fainting

Eighty garment workers in Kampong Cham province fainted yesterday morning due to pesticides sprayed on a rice field nearby, according to police. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35714/pesticide-causes-mass-fainting/

Government floats new pay scheme

Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng yesterday fingered large end-of-contract severance payments as a prime reason owners flee when their factories go bankrupt, suggesting the introduction of a yearly bonus scheme and fortnightly salaries would “reduce the risk” of garment workers being left in the ...

Sen David and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-floats-new-pay-scheme

Workers at shuttered factory protest for pay

Workers from Shude Garment Co, Ltd, protested in front of their factory yesterday in Kampong Speu province’s Chbar Mon town after their employer vanished without paying their January salaries. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-shuttered-factory-protest-pay

More firms under government umbrella, says NSSF

Statistics released by the National Social Security Fund yesterday showed that it increased its reach in 2016, adding more than 900 new private firms encompassing some 59,000 workers, and increasing its workplace accident payouts. ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-firms-under-government-umbrella-says-nssf

Minister plans railway for workers

The Labor Ministry is considering constructing a railway line connecting Phnom Penh and select provinces to special economic zones (SEZ) or industrial areas in response to the high number of road accidents involving commuting workers. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34978/minister-plans-railway-for-workers/

Many migrants sent home in 2016

More than 800 Cambodian migrant workers were assisted and sent back to the country in 2016 by the government through its embassies, but one rights group says even greater attention needs to be paid to overseas workers. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34185/many-migrants-sent-home-in-2016/

Unions, government consult on new min wage law

The Ministry of Labour met with unions on Friday to gather input on a universal minimum wage law currently being drafted, union representatives and ministry officials confirmed yesterday. “The meeting is a forum for each party to review the draft and provide comments so the ...

Sen David and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-government-consult-new-min-wage-law

Amid building boom, safety left dangling

Sroeun, 43, a former rice farmer from Kandal province, said he was sure there had never been any accidents at his construction site.​ “Small things happen. Scratches on our hands,” he said, declining to give his full name as a supervisor stood nearby during a break ...

Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-building-boom-safety-left-dangling-122063/

Unions: change minimum wage law

More than 40 unions have joined together to ask the Labor Ministry to make changes to 10 articles in the draft Minimum Wage Law, saying the law did not cover all sectors and restricted the rights of union representatives in wage negotiations among a host ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33063/unions--change-minimum-wage-law/

Advocates, employers tussle over compliance

Local garment sector stakeholders failed to find common ground at a meeting on supply chain safety protocols, with the government and employers expressing reluctance to take on an additional level of responsibility. ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/advocates-employers-tussle-over-compliance

Don’t increase garment workers’ rent, says pm

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged landlords not to indiscriminately increase the price of rent in light of the upcoming hike in the wages of garment workers next year. Speaking at the inauguration of the Coca-Cola factory in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, the ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32799/don---t-increase--garment-workers-----rent--says-pm/

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