Development and assistance for labor rights and labor unions

Labor rights and labor unions funding

PM: Factory workers on suspension get support

Prime Minister Hun Sen has officially announced that the government will provide cash assistance to over 32,000 workers in the textile-related sectors whose employment has been suspended due to a reduction in purchasing orders, or whose factories have ceased operations. ...

Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-factory-workers-suspension-get-support

NagaWorld dispute drags on with 25th meeting

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training remains unable to find a solution to the labour dispute between NagaWorld and its dismissed employees, while civil society organisations call on the ministry to end its role as mediator and for the use of existing legal mechanisms ...

Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nagaworld-dispute-drags-25th-meeting

Workshop tackles labour rows

Ensuring harmony in industrial relations is a priority set out in the Strategic Plan for Employment Development and Vocational Training 2019-2023 to contribute to the successful implementation of the government’s Rectangular Strategy Phase IV. ...

Neang Kunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workshop-tackles-labour-rows

2027 extension for ‘Better Factories’ inspection regime

The government and the US-based International Labour Organisation (ILO) have agreed to continue their cooperation and renew their MOU that will extend the “Better Factories Cambodia” (BFC) 2023-2027 programme. ...

Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/2027-extension-better-factories-inspection-regime

NagaCorp chief CEO’s son smashes casino striker’s phone, union says

A son of casino firm NagaCorp’s billionaire senior CEO has been accused by unionists of snatching and throwing to the ground a phone belonging to a striking employee of the company’s NagaWorld casino, with video also showing the identified executive lobbing a traffic cone at ...

Sovann Sreypich and Jack Brook
https://cambojanews.com/nagacorp-chief-ceos-son-smashes-casino-strikers-phone-union-says/

Sar Kheng set to lead NagaWorld mediation meeting

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng is slated to lead a meeting with ministers and authorities to seek a solution for the ongoing labour dispute between the NagaWorld integrated resort and former staff who have since mid-December been protesting the termination of hundreds of their coworkers. ...

Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-set-lead-nagaworld-mediation-meeting

Unions ask for $200 minimum wage for 2022

The Trade Unions have proposed that the minimum wage for workers be raised to $200 per month, starting next year which is a turn from their initial demand of $250 last year. ...

Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50921500/unions-ask-for-200-minimum-wage-for-2022/

Nepotism complaint at institute

Sixteen former staff members at the Sihanoukville provincial Multi-Technical Training Institute filed a sweeping complaint against the school’s married directors with the Ministry of Labor over the weekend. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27480/nepotism-complaint-at-institute/

Takeo factory dispute negotiations prove fruitless

Unionists, factory representatives and Labor Ministry officials on Thursday failed to find a solution for about 1,600 employees of a garment factory in Takeo province who were fired for striking last month, and the case will be passed along to the Arbitration Council, a ministry ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/takeo-factory-dispute-negotiations-prove-fruitless-100231/

Global march for decent work

Workers across the globe took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the World Day for Decent Work.In South Africa, the largest union federation, Cosatu, held marches across the country to highlight a number of socioeconomic issues. ...

ioL News Staff
http://mobi.iol.co.za/#!/article/global-march-for-decent-work-1.1926469

FTU boss says no cash for election

Chea Mony, the Free Trade Union president who announced in July that he was stepping down from his post, has said the union does not yet have the money available to hold a congress to vote in a new president. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ftu-boss-says-no-cash-election

Arbitration body orders capitol tours bus drivers back to work

The Arbitration Council on Wednesday ordered 40 Capitol Tours bus drivers to end a strike that began on July 22 over claims that five other drivers were fired for attempting to organize a union at the company. ...

Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/arbitration-body-orders-capitol-tours-bus-drivers-back-to-work-90014/

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