Workers protest job cuts at garment factory
More than 100 workers from the Horus Industry garment factory in Phnom Penh Meanchey district protested outside the Ministry of Social Affairs on Friday, demanding that the government order their employer to provide answers as to why hundreds have lost jobs at the factory. Workers say that of the 2,000 workers at the Chinese-owned factory last month, there are now only 227 left employed and that those who are left are not getting paid. … Workers filed a complaint with the Social Affairs Ministry on Aug. 9, voicing their grievances, however no answers have been forthcoming from the factory. A manager at the factory declined to comment, but Sing Mon, head of the protest department at the Ministry of Social Affairs, said the ministry would supplement the workers’ wages if the company did not. …
