Over 1,400 Cambodian factory workers demand ‘compensation’


C.CAWDU holds a press conference to discuss the more than 1,000 laid-off garment workers on April 27.- FB

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Over 1,400 workers from 23 factories are seeking the intervention of institutions, including the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training and the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, to order their former employers to pay them compensation rightfully owed for laying them off.

The 1,408 workers said some of them had been facing unpaid wages and lack of compensation since being laid off in 2014. They submitted a letter to the ministry and Cabinet to seek their intervention in the dispute.

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