Workers left in limbo on union law
Almost six months after the latest draft of the proposed trade-union law was sent to the Council of Ministers for approval, employers, unions and workers’ rights groups are left asking the same question: What’s happened to it? Confusion over the status of the landmark law, which includes provisions for informal workers such as tuk-tuk drivers to unionise and collectively bargain, is such that government secretary-general Nady Tann yesterday could not say where the draft law was. … Ou Virak said he also had not seen the latest draft, but said unions had been concerned factories would manipulate the law’s fine-print to favour their own unions, so it was better for the government to take the time to get it right. …
