"Warning over Cambodia's garment workers as EU tariff threat looms", 4 November 2019

...The European Chamber of Commerce estimates that 90,000 jobs would be at risk if the EU suspended special trade preferences over Cambodia’s record on democracy and human rights...

Workers who lose their jobs - mainly women - would likely end up in the entertainment or service industries, at bars and massage parlours, and be exposed to sexual exploitation, said... the Center for Alliance of Human and Labor Rights. “There is no safety net in those sectors,”... The alternative would be migrating to Thailand where...[Cambodian workers are] undocumented and vulnerable to modern-day slavery...

...H&M, said... [it] would do less business in Cambodia if the trade benefits ended... [and] had an exit strategy to allow its suppliers to transition to new buyers, but that the firm had no further obligation to workers.

... Primark... said staying in the nation without the trade deal would be a “big challenge”.

Attending the Textile and Apparel SEA Summit in Phnom Penh last week, the firms said they were working with suppliers in Cambodia to boost productivity in a bid to minimise job losses...