Wing Star victim’s kin not paid out
When an overloaded and illegally built storage level at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province collapsed last May 16, officials went into damage control, promising to compensate victims using a relatively new state fund. But one year after teenager Kim Dany and co-worker Rim Roeun, 22, were crushed to death at the factory – which supplies Japanese footwear firm Asics – the multimillion-dollar National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has yet to pay Dany’s family compensation beyond funeral costs. The NSSF, established in 2007 to insure private-sector workers and their families in the event of injury or death, has not paid Dany’s parents a survivors’ pension, despite provisions for such benefits enshrined in the law. …
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wing-star-victim%E2%80%99s-kin-not-paid-out
