Factory’s owner in crosshairs
Some 400 garment workers yesterday gathered outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to plead for government intervention against a factory owner who fled without paying them overdue wages three months ago.
Khem Chamnan, a Free Trade Union representative from the Pine Great (Cambodia) factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, said this was the third gathering in as many months. …
In early May, more than 700 workers from the shuttered factory were promised their back pay, only to arrive at the factory and find much of its equipment removed and the owner gone. Workers said they believed he fled to China.
Vong Sovann, deputy secretary-general of the Committee for the Settlement of Strikes and Demonstrations at the Social Affairs Ministry, said yesterday that a working group had been created to deal with the case. …
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