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3 Jan 2020

Author:
Savi Khorn, The Phnom Penh Post

Cambodia: The Ministry of Labour calls on garment workers to file complaints if factories fail to pay their seniority indemnity

"Workers told to complain if indemnity is not paid", 2 January 2020

Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training officials have appealed to workers in the textile sector to file complaints to the ministry immediately, if factory owners failed to make last year’s seniority indemnity payments.

Meanwhile, some unions claimed that factories had failed to pay the second of two disbursements in 2019 as per the ministry’s prakas.

Ministry spokesman Heng Sour told … that it had not received complaints in regards to factory owners failing to pay up.

… “There is no figure [of factories that failed to pay seniority indemnity for workers] and the ministry has also never received any complaint from workers in the textile, garment and footwear sectors.

“If such a thing happens, the ministry would like all the affected workers to immediately complain so that action can be taken.”…

However, Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) president Pav Sina said some factories did not implement the prakas as the owners had informed the workers that they would get paid this month, while others had not set any date to make the December payment.

Sina said it showed weaknesses in Cambodia’s legal system when factory owners failed to follow the prakas. He said the ministry should carry out inspections and impose fines on factory owners to ensure that the law is effectively enforced…

CUMW deputy president Pum Sokunthy who works at Yuly International (Cambodia) Garment Factory in Bavet town, said … that he has heard factory workers saying their employers failed to pay up…