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Jump in fainting cases in 2017 for garment workers

The National Social Security Fund of the Ministry of Labour said more than 1,600 workers fainted in 22 factories in 2017, an increase of more than 400 from the previous year. According to a Facebook post that published the conclusion of the 2017 annual results and ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106532/jump-fainting-cases-2017-garment-workers/

Minimum wage law talks conclude

A tripartite group consisting of employers, unions and the government finished discussing the draft law on minimum wage yesterday. Labour Minister Ith Samheng said yesterday’s talks were the last public workshop to discuss the draft law on minimum wage after two workshops had already taken place. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/105452/minimum-wage-law-talks-conclude/

Report shows little sign of improvement at factories

A Better Factories Cambodia report shows little improvement in the continued use of short-term contracts and safety and health conditions for workers at surveyed factories, with total compliance of all exporting factories still stuck at less than 50 percent. The International Labour Organisation’s compliance program conducts ...

Yon Sineat and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-shows-little-sign-improvement-factories

Working conditions improving in garment factories: ILO

A report released Tuesday by Better Factories Cambodia (BFC), a programme of the International Labour Organisation, found that compliance in the garment industry with working conditions regulations has improved substantially in the last four year. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103908/working-conditions-improving-in-garment-factories-ilo/

Ministry, US body sign MoU to increase exports

The Labour Minister said he expects buyers from America to increase their orders both in the textile and footwear industry after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday between the Ministry of Labour and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity.   ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103562/ministry-us-body-sign-mou-to-increase-exports/

Labour Ministry signs pact with US agency

The Labour Ministry is expecting American buyers to increase their orders after a memorandum of understanding between the ministry and the American Centre for International Labour Solidarity on “Cooperation in the Field of Labour” was signed. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103718/labour-ministry-signs-pact-with-us-agency/

Road safety policy planned

The Labour Ministry is planning to launch a national policy to cut the number of traffic accidents involving garment workers being driven to and from factories. The policy will encourage employers and drivers to prioritise road safety. Labour Minister Ith Samheng yesterday addressed a workshop on the ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103746/road-safety-policy-planned/

Labour union sued by factory

The owner of Gawon Apparel factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao city has sued the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union for continuing its protest and has requested Labour Ministry intervention. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103467/labour-union-sued-by-factory/

Bag firm plans to grow local operations

Wah Sun Handbags International Holding unveiled plans yesterday to expand its Cambodia operations, citing the country’s low labour costs as the primary reason for the move. In a filing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the handbag manufacturer announced plans to raise up to $18 ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bag-firm-plans-grow-local-operations

Workers to hawk factory machines

More than 500 workers from the Benoh Apparel factory in Meanchey district’s Stung Meanchey commune yesterday agreed to sell the remaining machines in the factory to cover their lost pay after the owner went bankrupt and fled the country. ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101011/workers-hawk-factory-machines/

Garment factory shutters, leaving hundreds unpaid

Garment workers at the Benoh Apparel factory in the capital’s Meanchey district returned to work this week after a two-month suspension to find the building abandoned, prompting a protest demanding compensation from the government. ...

Yon Sineat and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-factory-shutters-leaving-hundreds-unpaid

Chinese delegation explores local market

A delegation of some of China’s biggest companies in the food-processing industry is scouring the local market for investment opportunities in the agriculture sector. Headed by He Jianxiang, the deputy director-general of the Bureau of Product Processing at China’s Ministry of Agriculture, the delegation met ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100169/chinese-delegation-explores-local-market/

Workers protest over ‘RCAF’ factory guards

Roughly 100 garment workers protested again in front of Pou Yuen Enterprise Ltd yesterday amid allegations that the shoe factory hired Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers to act as security guards for the company. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-protest-over-rcaf-factory-guards

Insiders say new concrete factories not enough to stabilise local sector

Four new Cambodian cement factories are set to come online in the near future, tripling the number of local producers, but insiders and officials this week maintained that even increased capacity will not significantly lower rates of cement imports to Cambodia due to prevailing high ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insiders-say-new-concrete-factories-not-enough-stabilise-local-sector

PM dares landlords to get rent hikes from him

Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated his demand for the owners of garment worker housing to freeze rents in 2018 yesterday, telling the leasers to come to him personally if they disagreed with the order. ...

Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-dares-landlords-get-rent-hikes-him

Protesters to stop blocking road

Garment workers from the Gawon Apparel factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao town have agreed to stop blocking a road leading to the factory for the next 15 days as they await a solution to their labour dispute from the Arbitration Council. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096984/protesters-stop-blocking-road/

Gawon workers block road again over unpaid wages

Garment workers resumed their strike against the Gawon Apparel Cambodia Co today, demanding bosses sell factory equipment to pay their salaries, though a factory official claimed the company will suspend workers to settle payroll shortages. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gawon-workers-block-road-again-over-unpaid-wages

EU not taking action on garment industry

The European Union ambassador to Cambodia assured union officials on Tuesday that no sanctions on the garment sector had been taken. Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and several civil society groups have called for sanctions on the garment industry following the dissolution of the opposition CNRP ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095913/eu-not-taking-action-garment-industry/

Hundreds of garment workers faint in Takeo

More than 100 workers at the JD Toyoma garment factory in Takeo province’s Bati district fainted yesterday morning while working. Police suspected the cause of the fainting was chemical fumes in the factory, but the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia said the fumes did not ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094481/hundreds-garment-workers-faint-takeo/

Garment factory fined after pollution claims

The Ministry of Environment has fined a Chinese garment factory in Takeo province $7,500 after villagers complained the factory was polluting nearby streams with untreated waste. ...

Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-factory-fined-after-pollution-claims

Garment workers protest to demand better conditions

More than 200 workers at the Nantai garment factory agreed to bring an end to their protest after the Labour Ministry, local authorities and company promised to solve their dispute on Wednesday. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093919/garment-workers-protest-demand-better-conditions/

Workers’ bonus fight

More than 500 garment workers in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district on Friday protested and blocked a portion of Veng Sreng Boulevard to demand their annual bonus from 2010 to 2017. ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093740/workers-bonus-fight/

Don’t punish us: employers

​The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia has called on international buyers to continue ordering clothes and textile products made in the country over fears the US and the EU could halt preferential treatment for Cambodian exports.​ ​ ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093735/dont-punish-us-employers/

Sausage case producer raided

Authorities shut down a large sausage casing manufacturer in Kampong Speu province after discovering its owners had been operating illegally for two years and were using forbidden chemical substances. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sausage-case-producer-raided

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