Masseuses protest sackings

Noise from a loudspeaker yesterday cut through the usual peace on street 282 in Phnom Penh’s Beoung Keng Kang 1 neighbourhood, as five former massage workers at upscale spa Aziadee protested the sudden termination of their contracts. Waving posters in front of the shop and taking turns at the speaker, the workers said they had been fired without receiving final wages or other benefits – in violation of an Arbitration Council decision – after they attended the return of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk’s body in October. … Tuy Sitheang, a dispute resolution official from the Cambodia Food Service Workers Federation (CFSWF), said at the protest that the Arbitration Council had ordered the company to pay the fired workers several benefits. …

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