ILO convention still debated

6 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Government / International laws and treaties / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Law and judiciary / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training / Social development
Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Associations / CAMFEBA / Convention 87 on the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize / Government-Private Sector Forum / Heng Sour / Hun Sen / International Labour Organization / Ministry of Labour

The government has no intention of withdrawing its signature from the International Labour Organization’s freedom of association convention, despite calls for it to reconsider its position, a Ministry of Labour spokesman said yesterday. “I don’t think we will withdraw. The prime minister [Hun Sen] has already said he will commit to freedom of association,” said the ministry’s Heng Sour. “To my understanding, the government has no intention to [withdraw].” At the Government-Private Sector Forum on Tuesday, Nang Sothy, from the forum’s industrial relations group, called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to consider whether the ILO’s convention 87 was benefiting Cambodia, in the wake of union-led garment strikes in January in which security forces shot dead at least four workers and factories lost millions of dollars. …

 Shane Worrell
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