Labor
Labor policy and administration
Beer promoters stage demonstration, as labor official barred from company
Staff of Anco Brother beer company, owed by a senator of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, barred labor officials from entering the company Wednesday, as workers staged a demonstration outside. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/beer-promoters-stage-demonstration-as-labor-official-barred-from-company/2903051.html
GMAC no fan of union law
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia says it will push for revisions made on the draft trade union law last week to be changed.During a meeting on July 28, the Ministry of Labour said it had revised a number of provisions in the law, which ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-no-fan-union-law
Beer promoters to demonstrate over unpaid firing
A group of beer promoters plan to stage a demonstration Wednesday to demand payment for eight women who were fired by a beer company owned by a ruling party senator. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/beer-promoters-to-demonstrate-over-upaid-firing/2900558.html
Capitol bus drivers reject employment letters
More than 40 Capitol Tours bus drivers who were ordered by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday to end a nearly two-weeklong strike are refusing to sign a company letter agreeing to new employment conditions. ...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/capitol-bus-drivers-reject-employment-letters-90610/
Garment factories say low productivity should temper raise
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia on Monday urged unions to moderate their demands in current negotiations over next year’s minimum wage for the garment industry, given the low productivity of Cambodian workers and their many paid days off compared with competing countries. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-factories-say-low-productivity-should-temper-raise-90608/
Gov’t requests probe into prisoners in Malaysia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked the country’s ambassador to Malaysia, Princess Norodom Arunrasmey, to investigate reports that hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers have been jailed in the country’s Selangor state. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-requests-probe-into-prisoners-in-malaysia-90388/
Work permit crackdown: Westerners next
Starting in August, the Labor Ministry plans to focus its work permit crackdown on “Western companies.” ...
Emmanuel Scheffer
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13889/work-permit-crackdown--westerners-next/
Workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia allowed to be ship technicians
The Department of Employment (DOE) will allow foreign ship workers to apply as technicians, in a move to deal labor shortages in the fishing industry. ...
NNT News Staff
http://thainews.prd.go.th/CenterWeb/NewsEN/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNECO5807300010004
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/
Over 50 illegal vietnamese workers arrested in capital
More than 50 illegal Vietnamese migrant workers were arrested Wednesday while working on the construction site of luxury estates in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, police said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-50-illegal-vietnamese-workers-arrested-in-capital-90035/
Human trafficking still rife in Cambodia, US report says
Amid numerous reports of Cambodian women being trafficked to China and men being used as forced labor on fishing boats, the U.S.’ latest Trafficking in Persons report again said Cambodia is not doing enough to combat human trafficking. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/human-trafficking-still-rife-in-cambodia-us-report-says-89840/
Drivers demand OT wages from tycoon’s firm
Nearly 60 drivers employed by the Royal Cambodian Limousine Service—a subsidiary of tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group that transports foreign delegates and other VIPs visiting the country—have agreed to return to work today after two days of striking failed to net them unpaid overtime wages. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/drivers-demand-ot-wages-from-tycoons-firm-89856/
Gov’t revises trade union law
Several of the more contentious points from Cambodia’s draft trade union law have been dropped, a pro-government union leader said yesterday, although at least one major union remains unsatisfied with the pending legislation. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-revises-trade-union-law
Factory wages remain a potential flashpoint for workers
Sok Ren lives in a tiny room in a rented house in Phnom Penh. She has not been home in two years, having decided to leave a child behind and find work in the city’s garment sector. Unions say workers need at least $177 ...
Survey of garment workers’ expenses to come
Hoping to help fill the void in reliable data that has stymied past negotiations on the minimum wage for the country’s garment workers, an international team of labor rights groups Monday hired a local research firm to find out exactly how much the workers are ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/survey-of-garment-workers-expenses-to-come-89657/
Capitol tours bus protesters skirmish with tuk-tuk drivers
A group of Capitol Tours bus drivers—five of whom claim they were fired for attempting to form a union—say they were attacked Monday by a group of more than 50 tuk-tuk drivers while protesting outside the transport company’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/capitol-tours-bus-protesters-skirmish-with-tuk-tuk-drivers-89641/
Over 70 faint at Kompong Speu garment factory
More than 70 workers fainted over three days at a garment factory in Kompong Speu province after complaining of difficulty breathing, a unionist and employee said Monday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-70-faint-at-kompong-speu-garment-factory-89655/
Factory libraries push literacy
In an effort to encourage literacy among garment factory workers, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) and NGO Sipar are working together to open libraries in 15 factories in the Kingdom in the next three years. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-libraries-push-literacy
Capitol tours bus company, 5 drivers remain deadlocked
Following a meeting at the Labor Ministry’s conflict resolution department Thursday, the Capitol Tours bus company and five of its drivers—who claim they were fired for attempting to organize a union—remained deadlocked over their reinstatement. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/capitol-tours-bus-company-5-drivers-remain-deadlocked-89321/
Capitol bus drivers strike over fired colleagues
More than 40 drivers for the Capitol Tours bus company went on strike Wednesday, protesting outside the company’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district to demand the reinstatement of five employees they claim were fired for trying to unionize. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/capitol-bus-drivers-strike-over-fired-colleagues-89268/
Rainsy tells FTU to push for $180
Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Sam Rainsy yesterday told unionists that his party supports a minimum wage increase in the Kingdom’s garment industry to $180 per month in 2016. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-tells-ftu-push-180
VN fishermen arrested in Koh Kong, deported
In their continuing effort to stop illegal fishing in Cambodian waters, the Kingdom’s Immigration Police impounded 11 Vietnamese fishing boats last week caught in Cambodian territorial waters off Koh Kong province and ordered their 39 crew members deported. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13462/vn-fishermen-arrested-in-koh-kong--deported/
Workers threaten to burn banner of brand
About 200 workers from a factory that supplies sportswear giant Puma delivered a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet on Friday calling attention to their demands that five-year employment contracts be replaced by one-year contracts, a union leader said. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-threaten-to-burn-banner-of-brand-88862/
Cambodia grants work cards to 25,000 foreigners in six months
Cambodia’s Ministry of Labor granted about 25,000 work permits to foreigners in the first six months of 2015, about 5,000 more than the total of last year, a local newspaper reported Friday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6617771/2015/07/17/cambodia-grants-work-cards-25000-foreigners-six-months