Playing with a bad hand
It’s been more than a year since union leader Sat Sep was fired from the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Poipet town, a dismissal that sparked strikes and ended in senior members of the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers Federation being driven from the casino’s gaming rooms. “Since then, the company has terminated the contracts of about 300 workers. Some were given compensation – but not the full amount they were entitled to under the law,” Sep claimed yesterday. Rulings from the Provincial Department of Labour and the Arbitration Council ordered the reinstatement of Sep – an employee of the casino for more than 10 years. To this day, he remains banned from the casino and says he is still owed a significant amount of money. … Dave Welsh, country manager for Solidarity Center/ACILS, said authorities were not doing enough to ensure the casinos, many of which were foreign owned, followed Cambodian laws. …
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