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Garment workers to get health insurance

Garment workers across the Kingdom will receive health insurance from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) by 2018, according to officials. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24928/garment-workers-to-get-health-insurance/

Ministry calls for better workplace safety

The Labor Ministry has called for improvements to workplace safety in response to an International Labor Organization (ILO) report stating that 181 workers died in more than 30,000 workplace accidents across the Kingdom last year, according to officials. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24766/ministry-calls-for-better-workplace-safety/

Workers need to re-register with NSSF

The labor minister has ordered workers’ identities to be re-registered with the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), according to a statement released yesterday and signed by Ith Samheng, the Minister for Labor. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24534/workers-need-to-re-register-with-nssf/

Fumes blamed as 20 garment workers faint

Twenty female garment workers at Evergreen Apparel factory in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district fainted yesterday because of toilet fumes funnelled through the ventilation system, though heat stress and heavy workloads were also possible factors. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fumes-blamed-20-garment-workers-faint

Worker road deaths spike in ‘15

The number of workers killed and injured by traffic accidents nearly doubled in 2015, according to a report released by the National Social Security Fund yesterday. ...

Sen David and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/worker-road-deaths-spike-15

Training in works for garment truck drivers

Reacting to a spate of garment worker transport truck accidents in the past 12 months, including one on Tuesday that took four lives, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) yesterday announced plans to provide truck drivers with road safety education, with the aim of having ...

Lay Samean and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/training-works-garment-truck-drivers

Deadly year for garment factory commutes: Report

More than 7,000 garment workers were injured and 130 killed during traffic accidents that occurred while they were being transported to and from factories in the first 11 months of the year, according to a report from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF).   ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18538/deadly-year-for-garment-factory-commutes--report/

Gov’t vows crackdown on lawbreaking contractors

Contractors that dodge requirements to register with the social security fund, leaving workers to foot their hospital bills alone, will start facing harsher legal penalties, the director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said.  ...

Jonathan Cox and Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18493/gov---t-vows-crackdown-on-lawbreaking-contractors/

Unions propose new body to monitor social fund, pensions

Trade unions are proposing a new committee to monitor the country’s social fund for injured workers, pension program for civil servants and health care for the poor in a bid to improve and expand coverage. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-propose-new-body-to-monitor-social-fund-pensions-101163/

Vihear Suor farmers slammed for workday pesticide use

The Khsach Kandal district hall has called on 10 farmers to attend a meeting today about the pesticides they spray on their crops after almost 300 factory workers in the nearby 7NG Economic Zone fainted on Thursday and Friday. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18069/vihear-suor-farmers-slammed-for-workday-pesticide-use/

More than 100 faint at Kandal toy factory

Nearly 120 workers at a Kandal province toy factory fainted yesterday morning, with officials citing a nearby farmer spraying his fields with pesticide as the cause.​ ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-100-faint-kandal-toy-factory

Four factories see 118 faintings

More than 100 workers across four garment factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Takeo provinces fainted yesterday. National Social Security Fund (NSSF) officials said 45 workers at C N Prosperous Garment (Cambodia) Co Ltd in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district fainted yesterday, after more than ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-factories-see-118-faintings

Mass fainting occur at 2 garment factories in Cambodia

Some 82 Cambodian garment workers at two different factories fainted on Tuesday morning, and a labor official cited poor health for the cause of their fainting. Mass fainting has subsequently occurred in Cambodian garment factories. According to the NSSF, some 557 workers got fainted in ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/mass-fainting-occur-at-2-garment-factories-in-cambodia-8730

Commute deadly: gov’t

Garment workers continue to die in traffic accidents on their way to and from the factory, a new report highlighting the deadly commute in Cambodia’s largest industry shows. In the report, titled The Dangerous Journey of Garment Workers in 2014, the Ministry of Labour’s National Social ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/commute-deadly-govt

Fainting figures jumped in 2014: government

Workplace faintings last year jumped more than 100 per cent from 2013, a report from the Ministry of Labour and National Social Security Fund (NSSF) released yesterday says. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fainting-figures-jumped-2014-government

A lesson in caution

After nearly 50 garment workers were killed last year while travelling to or from their respective factories, the Ministry of Labour has urged truck drivers who cram dozens into the back of vehicles each day to take more care on the roads. In an information session ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lesson-caution

Another construction worker killed

An 18-year-old man became the third construction worker in three days to be killed on the job after part of a building collapsed on him and three co-workers – including two 15-year-olds – on Monday, police said. Yu Bunrong, from Kampong Cham province’s Koh Sotin district, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/another-construction-worker-killed

Wall collapse kills two construction workers

Two construction workers were crushed to death on Saturday in Phnom Penh when a concrete wall collapsed on them as they were digging a building’s foundation. Boeung Tompun commune police identified the victims as Touch Chorm, 17, from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, and, Yung Yangthor, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wall-collapse-kills-two-construction-workers

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