"National Assembly set to decide on labour law amendment", 29 July 2021

The National Assembly (NA) will hold a plenary session soon to pass draft amendments to eight articles of the labour law after the NA’s expert committee reviewed them and received input from Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Sam Heng.

…, Sam Heng and his team attended a virtual meeting with the NA’s commission on healthcare, social affairs, veterans and youth rehabilitation, and labour and vocational training to discuss the draft law.

The eight articles that will be amended are 123, 138, 162, 300, 343, 350, 363 and 367.

…, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law including the decision to keep night shift wages for workers in the garment and footwear sector at 130 per cent of regular wages. It rejected a proposal that their pay rate be lowered to the same amount as the day shift.

… The NA said … that the expert committee had agreed to refer the draft law on amendments to the labour law to its Permanent Committee for review and put it on agenda for the NA’s plenary session expected to take place in the coming days…