Fire-ravaged factory’s former owner to give workers loans
The former owner of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire on Monday has agreed to provide loans to about 900 out-of-work employees until the current owner decides whether and how to pay them due wages and severance. Authorities, meanwhile, said they still did not know what caused the blaze at the Chinese-owned Chang Sheng Garment factory, which killed one of the factory’s Chinese supervisors. Hel Phalla, head of administration at the Pur Senchey district factory, said the current owner asked the previous owner, a personal friend, to help the workers cover their immediate expenses while the factory dealt with its insurance provider and decided what to do next. …
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