"Cintri workers end strike as company agrees to demands", 14 October 2020

Employees of trash collection firm Cintri agreed to return to work across Phnom Penh … after the company said it would meet their demands when their contracts end … next year, according to union representatives.

Kao Sovath, president of Cintri’s chapter of the Cambodia Tourism Workers Union Federation (CTWUF), said all employees had agreed to end their 12-day strike after Cintri said it would fulfil their benefits.

“The company agreed to pay us all benefits …,” Sovath said. “Night shift workers will go out to collect garbage … and workers in day shift will go to collect garbage in the morning tomorrow.”

He noted that Cintri had agreed to cover five benefits, including seniority indemnity pay, compensation pay, final salary, remaining annual leave pay, and notice pay, when the company’s contract is terminated after City Hall selects three new companies to carry out trash collection duties ...

… A court injunction issued … said that the strike by Cintri employees is illegal, and ordered them to return to work ...

Cintri employee Rong Saray confirmed that the workers had agreed to return to work…

“Now, we have agreed to return to work because the company agreed to pay us all of the benefits,” Saray said…

CTWUF President Touch Kosal said that after the workers’ contracts are terminated …, they would be paid benefits as requested, and may also be rehired by Cintri after that date under a new contract.

“I think that after the result of the meeting …, both the worker and company parties accept the solution,” Kosal said…