"Court Orders Seizure of Y&W Assets To Compensate Workers’ Salaries, Though Concerns Linger" 15 March 2024

On March 12, 2024, the ministry announced that Phnom Penh Municipal Court had issued a temporary order to seize the factory assets to compensate workers, following a protection order request on March 11, 2024.

The Ministry of Commerce, Council for the Development of Cambodia, General Department of Taxation and the police have also been roped in to find out more about the owner and arrest him if he is still in the country.

Alternatively, a court order would be sent to the company’s main office in its home country to assume responsibility for the factory’s situation in Cambodia, the Labor and Vocational Training Ministry said.

...the ministry highlighted a few measures to assure workers that efforts were being taken to help them. This includes the reassurance that workers would still receive their NSSF benefits for up to three months.

The ministry will also publicly notify workers when the sale of factory assets is due while the National Employment Agency (NEA) is deployed to immediately provide new jobs for workers so that they continue to receive some income...

The workers felt that the ministry only promised to help them and remain calm just so they could stop the strike. A few of them who spoke to CamboJA were concerned about the loss of livelihood...