Labor

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) is looking for a renewed focus on productivity following the conclusion of this month’s minimum wage negotiations, while supporting calls for clothing buyers to implement more sustainable purchasing practices. ...

The Ministry of  Labour and Vocational Training will organize a workshop on “Mechanisms and Criteria for Determining Minimum Wages in Cambodia” on 22 September 2015 from 8:30 am, at a meeting room A of the ministry’s office. ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training informs workers, employees, employers, technical organizations, and national and international organizations that discussions on the minimum wages for 2016, whereby tripartite (representatives of workers/employees, employers and the government) comes together, will begin from July 2015 while January 01, ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training denied the report that was published on 12 March 2015 by Human Rights Watch (HRW), and considered it as professionally baseless. The ministry asserted that international communities, retailers and International Labour Organization (ILO) agreed Cambodia’s better labor standards were ...

Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training informs owners and directors of factories about requests for approvals from the ministry if they wish their workers and employees to work overtime. This overtime work is based on agreements of the workers and employees while the total time ...

Jointly funded by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the project “Improving Industrial Relations in Cambodia’s Garment Industry” will be executed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). ...

Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) expressed its dissatisfaction on the decision of fixing minimum wage in a new level of 123 USD, which later on the government decided unilaterally add 5 USD more, making the new applied minimum wage up to 128 USD in ...

On 12 November 2014,​​ the Labor Advisory Committee (LAC) convened to consider and discuss the proposals of minimum wage levels of 110 USD, 121 USD and 140 USD. In an attempt to bridge the gap between the two parties, the government side proposed a minimum ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) would like to inform that the ministry has closely cooperated with International Labor Organization (ILO) aiming at strengthening the mechanisms as well as defining the criteria for determining minimum wage for workers and employees in the textile, ...

The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme today releases its 3rd online Transparency Report covering the period from July to September 2014. The report presents working conditions for 248 of Cambodia’s garment factories. ...

The International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia project, together with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Angkor Research and Consulting Ltd., today release a few summary results of the baseline survey for the “Study on the Impact of Food Provision on Garment Workers’ Health and ...

On 26 September 2014 at 3:00 p.m. the Labor Advisory Committee conducted 10th meeting of the 8th mandate at the office of Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training in order to discuss the minimum wage in 2014 for laborers in garment and textile sector and ...

Today, CLEC and LICADHO release a legal analysis of the latest draft of the Law on Unions of Enterprises (Trade Union Law) obtained at the end of May, this year. As unions yesterday began a nationwide campaign for a $177 per month minimum wage, the ...

Royal Cambodian Embassy in Thailand has an honor to notify all of the Cambodian laborers, who are illegally working in Thailand, about numbers of procedures to obtain as Cambodian legal laborers in the Kingdom of Thailand. ...

The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme today releases its 2nd online transparency report showing how individual garment factories measure up on key working conditions. ...

Compliance with the Cambodian labour law showed both advances and declines in key areas including wages, fire safety, child labor, and worker health and safety according to the latest Synthesis Report released by the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC). ...

Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training conducted a meeting with recruitment agencies to discuss about the procedure preparation for Cambodia laborers legally go to Thailand. ...

Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training notified to Cambodian laborers, who have just turned from Thailand, as well as the public about the available job opportunities at the companies, enterprises, and industrious and service sector which amounted to 16,146 posts. ...

Phnom Penh, 20 June 2014 – The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) is deeply critical of the uncivilized and inhumane manner in which Cambodian migrants have been treated by the Thai military junta as a result of its drive to deport undocumented migrants, ...

11 Jun 2014, LICADHO will mark World Day Against Child Labour 2014 by organizing community events in two locations: Sangkat Dang Tung, Koh Kong; and Stung Haov district, Preah Sihanouk. World Day Against Child Labour officially falls on June 12. ...