Luxury hotel ‘breaking law’

The Angkor Village Hotel and Resort is breaking the law by refusing to reinstate 67 sacked workers that the Arbitration Council ruled were unlawfully dismissed, Siem Reap’s deputy governor claimed yesterday. After attending a protest of hotel workers and supporters outside the hotel in Siem Reap town yesterday, Kim Chhay Heang said company owner Tep Vantho had simply ignored orders from his office to abide by an Arbitration Council decision and Cambodian law… The workers were sacked between July and August after some of them began establishing a union, though Angkor Village Hotel and Resort’s owners have claimed their dismal was due to unrelated misconduct including, in some case, attempts to poison the management…

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