Recruiting firm told to close

The Ministry of Labour has been ordered to permanently close the labour recruitment firm T&P following the discovery of more under-age trainees in its Kampong Chhnang centre. The move marks the first time the ministry has shut a labour reruitment firm, and follows intense criticism of the industry and the government’s reluctance to regulate it. Chiv Phally, deputy director of the Interior Ministry’s Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Department, said yesterday he had already sent a letter ordering the Labour Ministry to shut the firm. “We cannot allow this company to operate and we have enough evidences to close it…

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