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21 Jan 2020

Author:
Khut Sokun, VOD

Cambodia: Garment workers at sister factories continue to protest over unpaid wages & benefits

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"Workers at Struggling Factories Protest Over Unpaid Wages", 21 January 2020

...More than 900 workers from sister factories Dignity Knitter and Eco Base Factory in Prek Tra Pring village... have protested for the past six days to demand their unpaid salaries and seniority payment...

[H]ead of the local chapter of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCADU) [said]... workers are struggling to pay their bills... after the company failed to pay them since mid-December...

[T]he factories’ owner promised to pay $50 to the workers for the second period of December... Workers decided to return to work... as long as they received the payment, but the owner has not yet said when January’s compensation would arrive.

Asked why the factories had failed to pay the workers on time... administrative chief for the Dignity Knitter and Eco Base factories, refused to comment, saying it was an internal affair...

[D]eputy head of the CCADU... at Eco Base... said this was not the first time the factory had been unable to pay workers on time, and she was concerned the owners... would close the factory without warning...

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