Unequal treatment at Cambodian factories
The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland Garment – accentuated by the government’s willingness to pay out wages and benefits in full at one factory and not the other – that has prompted calls for an insurance scheme to be established to protect garment workers hit by sudden closures. … An insurance scheme, Welsh said, would preclude factories in favourable areas or with government connections from being given priority and make the system of paying out workers much clearer. “It’s good the workers [at Yung Wah] are being paid, but the problem is how does the government distinguish between Yung Wah and Kingsland?” David Welsh said. …
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