Pregnancy terminated in bid to regain old job
A woman fired from the Conpress Holding garment factory last week said she terminated her pregnancy of three months on Sunday in a desperate bid to gain reinstatement for herself and three other workers fired last week for unionising. Huk Pov, Free Trade Union president for the Phnom Penh Meanchey district factory, said factory officials would typically fire workers if they found out they were pregnant so she had an abortion before leading yesterday’s strike to demand reinstatement. “I decided to abort my baby without letting my husband know, because the company discriminates against workers having babies,” she said. “I will be very disappointed if the company still refuses to accept me back to work, even though I aborted my baby because of work.” …
