Labor

Labor policy and administration

Former Beehive workers protest over severance pay

Nine former employees of Beehive radio station protested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to demand that owner Mam Sonando respect an Arbitration Council ruling that he pay them severance after firing them earlier this year. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-beehive-workers-protest-over-severance-pay-85372/

Unions eye wage discussion

Negotiations for next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment and footwear sector are already gearing up, as union leaders prepare to meet this month to discuss what wage they will demand. During the week of June 21, union heads will hold a preliminary consensus-building meeting, said ...

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-eye-wage-discussion

After talks, workers return to jobs at M&V garment factory

A weekslong strike by more than 2,000 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that supplies global fashion brand H&M ended Wednesday after unions scaled down their original demands and backed down over a condition that workers receive their full salaries for the strike period, representatives ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-talks-workers-return-to-jobs-at-mv-garment-factory-85362/

Illegal workers arrested in construction site raid

Seventeen Vietnamese construction workers were arrested and the passports of 142 Chinese construction workers confiscated when immigration officers raided a building site in Phnom Penh on Tuesday afternoon. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-workers-arrested-in-construction-site-raid-85293/

Police free garment workers locked in at night by factory

Police in Phnom Penh were called up Friday night to order a Chinese-owned garment factory to release a group of employees it had locked inside in a failed attempt to make them work late into the night, officials said Sunday. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-free-garment-workers-locked-in-at-night-by-factory-85157/

Strike order protested

About 50 striking garment workers representing more than 2,000 employees from M&V International Garment Factory yesterday gathered outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court where they submitted a letter demanding a court order prohibiting their industrial action be scrapped. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/strike-order-protested

Striking workers call for Phnom Penh court to revoke order

About 20 representatives for more than 2,000 striking workers—accused by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia of damaging the industry’s reputation—marched to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday asking it to revoke an injunction ordering them back to work. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/striking-workers-call-for-phnom%E2%80%88penh-court-to-revoke-order-85114/

Thai Rights body censures firm over Koh Kong sugar plantations

The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand has accused the country’s Khon Kaen Sugar of “serious human rights violations” at its two Cambodian plantations in a new report that urges the firm to return the land to the hundreds of families forced off their farms—some ...

Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-rights-body-censures-firm-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations-84968/

IOM raising funds to return rescued fishermen

As 58 Cambodian fishermen rescued from slavery in Indonesia await their travel documents to return home, the intergovernmental body organizing their return is attempting to raise money to pay for their travel because the Cambodian government is not offering any funds for their repatriation. ...

Alex Consiglio and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/iom-raising-funds-to-return-rescued-fishermen-82532/

Union asks Japanese to examine ‘assaults’

A Cambodian labour union this week sent a letter to the Japanese Embassy, asking for help dealing with reported violence against workers at a Japanese-owned garment factory in Kampong Speu province. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-asks-japanese-examine-assaults

Union asks embassy to investigate factory

The Free Trade Union on Thursday submitted a letter to the Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh requesting that embassy officials investigate a Japanese-owned garment factory in Kompong Speu province that it claims tried to intimidate a union representative late last year. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-asks-embassy-to-investigate-factory-82542/

City Hall considering May Day rally

Phnom Penh City Hall expressed uncertainty yesterday as to whether it would be able to allow a planned 3,000-person labour union rally on May 1, in observation of International Labour Day. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-considering-may-day-rally

Workers at South Korean firm strike over demotions

More than 40 employees at a South Korean firm in Phnom Penh continued a two-week-old strike Tuesday over their demotions earlier in the month and have started to protest, the workers and company said. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/workers-at-south-korean-firm-strike-over-demotions-82347/

Firm told to repay clients

The Ministry of Labour has given a recruitment firm 45 days to repay clients who filed a complaint alleging the company collected their money but never delivered promised jobs in Japan. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-told-repay-clients

Care lacking for victims: study

While mental health services are crucial to the recovery process for the Kingdom’s victims of human trafficking, stigma and limited resources remain a barrier in the provision of and access to those services, according to a new study published yesterday. The research, published in the International ...

Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/care-lacking-victims-study

In Cambodia, domestic workers get organized

Their ranks are small but growing, and they want their government to join an international labor treaty. “If we organize, we can help each other,” says a 25-year-old housekeeper who started working when she was 10 and earns $75 a month. ...

Kristi Eaton
http://womensenews.org/story/labor/150403/in-cambodia-domestic-workers-get-organized

Men enslaved in Indonesia rescued and repatriated

Nineteen Cambodian men were repatriated Sunday morning after being rescued by Indonesian authorities from slavery on Thai fishing boats, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong. ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/men-enslaved-in-indonesia-rescued-and-repatriated-81447/

Foreigners reminded to get their work permits

The head of the Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration issued a statement on Wednesday reminding foreigners working in Cambodia that they are required to hold a work permit—and will face fines if they do not. ...

Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/foreigners-reminded-to-get-their-work-permits-81328/

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