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Article

14 Oct 2018

Author:
Mom Kunthear, Khmer Times

Cambodia: Govt warns businesses not to employ minors following report of child labour in brick industry

"Ministry addresses child labour", 15 October 2018

The Labour Ministry has reminded business owners not to employ minors, while also noting that it has not come across any cases of child labour so far this year.

Labour Minister Ith Samheng...said...“Although we haven’t come across factories, enterprises, bricklayers or other businesses who employ children, we want them to remember labour laws,”....

...[R]ights group Licadho warned that children were still being exploited in handicraft and brick factories across the country despite efforts to put an end to child labour.

...A Licadho report in 2016 said many children working in the brick manufacturing industry do so to help their parents, who are poor and often in debt bondage with brick factory owners.