Inside look at ‘fainting’ factory
After a three-day standstill at a Puma supplier, shoemakers returned this morning to the factory floors in Phnom Penh where 49 workers reportedly fell ill Monday morning. Huey Chuen factory Assistant General Manager Zhang Hanchang – who led reporters from The Post through the empty factory in Phnom Penh’s Chom Chao District earlier on Tuesday – has insisted the medical emergency was unrelated to working conditions, which he said are on par with international standards. A Fair Labor Association report made public this month said, however, that the factory’s conditions had been found to be substandard following a separate incident where more than 200 workers reportedly fainted in April.
