"Over 800 Workers in Kampong Cham Demand Fair Compensation After Company Layoffs", 10 July 2025

More than 800 workers in Kampong Cham are demanding fair compensation after their company laid off them without notice. Workers at the LeCrown Shoes Industry factory in Kampong Cham province are urging the company to [pay] their compensation payments in accordance with the law...

A worker representative at the LeCrown Shoes factory, Ms. Thoeun Sreynoy, said...that representatives from the Ministry of Labor, factory representatives, and relevant parties are meeting to resolve the case. She added that several groups of workers protested on July 8 to demand that the factory owners comply with labor laws, before the relevant authorities intervened...

The factory side said that the termination of the workers’ contracts was due to the lack of orders: “(They used) a single word that the factory did not have orders.”...

Other workers whose contracts were terminated by Le Crown Su factory considered the termination of their jobs to be unfair, saying that they were performing their normal work but were terminated suddenly. They claimed that this had a significant impact on their livelihood and bank debt repayments, as some of them were family members.

According to the workers, the company agreed to compensate them with approximately US$200 each. However, they claimed that this was unacceptable because it was not commensurate with the number of years they had worked...

[Translation via Google Translate]