Factories Lend Travel Money to Ensure Garment Workers Vote
Often vilified for paying low wages in less than optimum work environments, Cambodia’s garment factory owners got into the swing of the commune elections this week, with many companies providing loans to help their workers travel home to vote. With about 400,000 employees, the garment industry’s workers are a key sector at election time, and factories have been lending up to $30 per worker so that they can return to their home provinces for the commune election on Sunday. …
