FILE PHOTO: Cambodian workers walk out from their factory on a lunch break in Phnom Penh on August 1, 2025. Most of the 220,000 returnee migrant workers are now formally employed in factories and large enterprises. - AFP
VIENTIANE: As of September 10, around 220,000 of the nearly one million Cambodian migrant workers who returned from Thailand have received job opportunities through the mechanisms of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, with support from the private sector and union leaders, said a September 12 ministry statement.
Labour minister Heng Sour said that about 120,000 of them received jobs via the ministry’s mechanisms and vocational training, while the remaining 100,000 others found jobs through direct arrangements with factories or trade union leaders.
