Cambodia: Over 200 union leaders launch campaign to demand accountability of factory owners for paying benefits owed to workers/employees
Автор: Sovuthy Khy, CamboJA, Опубликовано: 16 August 2020
"Unions’ campaign calls on government to guarantee benefit pay", 15 August 2020
More than 200 union leaders and activists from 17 unions and federations announced a social media campaign … to demand that the government hold factory owners accountable for paying benefits owed to employees.
Khun Tharo, program manager at labor rights group Central which coordinated the press conference, said federations, unions and workers are requesting that the government push employers to pay seniority indemnity, notice, and damage pay owed to workers…
“Please all brothers and sisters, join our campaign by writing on Facebook “Say NO to Workers’ Hunger,” Tharo said at the press conference…
Mann Seng Hak, vice president of the Free Trade Union said that as garment workers have been struggling to find work, the ministry has issued two statements that instead support employers…
Kong Atith, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union, said that besides appealing to the ministry, unions are also negotiating with nearly 30 industry buyers asking that they provide $76 of additional financial support. Currently, unemployed garment workers receive a total of $70 per month in assistance funding from the government and their former employer…
Ath Thorn, president of the Cambodian Labor Confederation, said garment industry employees will face even more hardship now that the European Commission’s decision to partially suspend Cambodia’s “Everything But Arms” tariff-free status to the European Union has taken effect…
Ken Loo, secretary-general of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia, said it was the unions’ right to request that the Labor Ministry change its approach.
“However, as of now, employers are implementing the rules based on the Labor Ministry’s decision,” he said, before declining to comment further…
Компании, имеющие отношение к делу: Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia