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Garment Exports Booming Despite Concerns
- 9 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Despite criticisms over safety, outbreaks of sometimes violent industrial action and a raise in the minimum wage that it was warned would scare off manufacturers, Cambodia’s garment sector is booming, according to government figures. A report on state newswire Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) on Friday said ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/garment-exports-booming-despite-concerns-34035/
ASICS Compensates Killed Workers’ Families
- 8 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Social development
- ASICS / ASICS Corporation / building inspections / Building Safety Regulations / compensation / construction / Factories / Factory collapse / factory working conditions / Garment Industry / health and safety / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / National Social Security Fund / NSSF / Phnom Penh / Wing Star Shoes Co
Japanese sports brand ASICS has agreed to pay compensation to the families of victims who died in a factory collapse in May, a brand representative said. ASICS Corporation managing executive officer Ron Pietersen, who arrived in Phnom Penh on Friday, said the company profoundly regretted the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/asics-compensates-killed-workers-families-33793/
Work-related deaths, injuries rose in 2012
- 14 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Law and judiciary / Social development
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity / Angkor Chey district / ASEAN / Calmette hospital / compensation / construction / construction industry / construction workers / Dave Welsh / Draft Law on Mine Safety / factory faintings / Faintings / Footwear / footwear sector / garment sector / garment workers / garments / health and safety / health and safety regulations / Kampot / Kampot Province / mine safety / mining / mining sector / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labour / National Social Security Fund / NSSF / NSSF’s Reports / Phnom Penh / Royal Government of Cambodia / traffic accidents / tuk tuk drivers / workers / working conditions / workplace deaths / workplace injuries
The number of officially recorded workplace deaths in Cambodia increased by more than 25 per cent from 2011 to 2012, while the vast majority of those injured at work were women, National Social Security Fund figures released yesterday reveal. A total of 59 people were reported ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061466277/National/work-related-deaths-injuries-rose-in-2012.html
Family Accepts $9000 over Collapse Death
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- American Solidarity / American Solidarity Center director Dave Welsh / Bangladesh / compensation / construction / Dave Welsh / Factories / factory construction standards / Footwear / footwear factory / Garment Industry / garments / health and safety / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Kompong Spue / Kompong Spue province / labor / labour / shoes / Solidarity Center / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / workers rights
The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed at Kompong Spue province footwear factory lasts week has accepted 9,000 in compensation, and in return has agreed not file a complaint against the company, the deceased’s wife said yesterday. Rim Sarouen, 22, ...
Standards Building Up Safety Fears
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. The results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265780/National/standards-building-up-safety-fears.html
Fear Remains as Factory Reopens
- 21 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
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More than 20 people fainted yesterday at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province, where two workers were crushed to death in a ceiling collapse last Thursday. Workers and union officials said an electrical short-circuit scared workers returning for the first time since the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165744/National/fear-remains-as-factory-reopens.html
Factory Orders Staff Back to Work Amid Safety Concerns
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Labor
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity Country Manager David Welsh / ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / building permits / Calmette hospital / Community Legal Education Center / Community Legal Education Center labor program head Moeun Tola / Community Legal Education Centre / Community Legal Education Centre labour programme head Moeun Tola / compensation / construction / construction standards / David Welsh / Factories / Factory collapse / factory construction / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia chairman Van Sou Leng / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Im Chhun Lim / Japanese aid / Japanese sports brand ASICS / Katsumi Funakoshi / Kobe / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / Kompong Speu provincial construction department / Kompong Speu provincial construction department bureau chief Mam Narey / Kompong Speu provincial department of land management / Kong Pisei district / labor / labor rights / labour / labour rights / Ly Hour / Mam Narey / Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim / Ministry of Land Management / Moeun Tola / Phnom Penh / Shoe factories / shoes / Van Sou Leng / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory representative Ly Hour / worker conditions / worker rights
Employees at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Kompong Speu province where two workers were killed when one of the building’s floors collapsed on Thursday have been ordered back to work today, despite ongoing concerns from labor activists about the building’s safety. While conceding that some parts ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-orders-staff-back-to-work-amid-safety-concerns-25192/
ASICS Wants Monitoring Of Cambodian Sub-Contractors After Accident
- 17 May 2013
- The Nation
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / Better Factories Cambodia / Better Factories Cambodia program / Better Factories Cambodia program chief technical adviser Jill Tucker / Better Factories Cambodia programme / Better Factories Cambodia programme chief technical adviser Jill Tucker / Cambodian factories / Cambodian factories program / Cambodian factories programme / Canada / construction / Europe / Factories / factory construction / factory sub-contractors / factory working conditions / fire safety / fire safety monitoring / fire safety regulations / Garment factories / health and safety / health and safety regulations / International Labor Organization / International Labour Organization / Japanese aid / Jill Tucker / Katsumi Funakoshi / minimum wage / Phnom Penh / Shoe factories / sub-contractors / United States aid / US / wages / Wing Star / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes factory / working conditions
The Japanese athletics brand ASICS said Friday that it would push its four Cambodian sub-contractors to join a programme that monitors conditions in garment and shoe factories. “We will strongly request to our sub-contractors in Cambodia to sign up to this programme,” Katsumi Funakoshi, ASICS ...
