• Families in Try Pheap Dispute Petition Governor

    Families in Try Pheap Dispute Petition Governor

    • Released Date: 21-Oct-2014

    BY KUCH NAREN | OCTOBER 21, 2014Representatives of 142 families from Pursat provinces Veal Veng district filed complaints with the provincial governor Monday seeking intervention in their land dispute with powerful timber and casino magnate Try Pheap

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  • Workers, Military Police Scuffle Over Speakers

    Workers, Military Police Scuffle Over Speakers

    • Released Date: 03-Oct-2014

    BY BEN SOKHEAN | OCTOBER 3, 2014About 100 striking workers scuffled with military police outside the Hong Kong-owned CWKH Garment factory in Phnom Penhs Pur Senchey district on Thursday, according to union representatives and a military police offici

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  • Factory Ordered to Close After Workers Faint

    Factory Ordered to Close After Workers Faint

    • Released Date: 03-Oct-2014

    An umbrella factory in Svay Rieng province was ordered to close temporarily on Thursday after 63 female employees fainted due to extreme heat and a lack of oxygen, provincial officials said.Staff at the Taiwanese-owned Towa Industrial Factory in Bave

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  • Govt says no to calls to raise minimum income tax level

    Govt says no to calls to raise minimum income tax level

    • Released Date: 02-Oct-2014

    Thu, 2 October 2014Chan Muyhong Despite calls from factory representatives and unions to review the minimum threshold for income tax, the General Department of Taxation (GDT) said yesterday it would stick to the $125 tax-free limit.The Garment Manufa

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  • Garment Workers Salaries Approach Taxable Levels

    Garment Workers Salaries Approach Taxable Levels

    • Released Date: 02-Oct-2014

    Phnom Penh, October 1, (Khmer Times) – As wages for garment workers approach taxable levels, the General Department of Taxation has assured garment workers that salary tax is to be paid by their employers. Kong Vibol, director general of the General

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  • Unions unite across ideologies

    Unions unite across ideologies

    • Released Date: 01-Oct-2014

    Wed, 1 October 2014Sean Teehan Independent garment unions have experienced unprecedented cooperation from pro-government unions during garment sector minimum wage talks this year, but some unionists and observers fear the congeniality is only for sho

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  • Worker hunger rates high: ILO

    Worker hunger rates high: ILO

    • Released Date: 30-Sep-2014

    Nearly half of Cambodias garment workers are anaemic, with 15 per cent considered underweight by international standards, according to data released yesterday on hunger in the industry.The International Labour Organizations Better Factories Cambodia

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  • Mass firing at Xin Fang factory

    Mass firing at Xin Fang factory

    • Released Date: 09-Sep-2014

    In a mass firing the scale of which has not been seen since January, Phnom Penhs Xin Fang garment factory yesterday terminated 106 employees for protesting in front of the factory.Management at the Por Sen Chey district factory on Thursday already sa

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  • Unions Say No To Minimum Wage Offer

    Unions Say No To Minimum Wage Offer

    • Released Date: 07-Sep-2014

    PHNOM PENH, September 6, (Khmer Times) – The minimum wage roller coaster ridden by the Collective Unions of Movement of Workers (CUMW)and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has yet to come to a halt. The unionists have refused t

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  • Borei Keila Reps Want In On Housing Talks

    Borei Keila Reps Want In On Housing Talks

    • Released Date: 06-Sep-2014

    Evictees from the Borei Keila community protested in front of City Hall on Friday to demand their inclusion in a working group that has been tasked with resolving the long-running dispute in which a development firm failed to provide decent housing f

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  • Labor Unions Soften Minimum Wage Demand

    Labor Unions Soften Minimum Wage Demand

    • Released Date: 05-Sep-2014

    BY MECH DARA | SEPTEMBER 5, 2014Labor unions have agreed to lower their demand for next years minimum wage hike in the all-important garment sector as a vote on the new wage approaches. However, they are yet to significantly narrow the gap between th

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  • Villagers Pushed to Accept Land Deal From KDC

    Villagers Pushed to Accept Land Deal From KDC

    • Released Date: 05-Sep-2014

    Kompong Chhnang provincial authorities on Thursday urged villagers locked in a land dispute with KDC International to accept compensation from the development firm, promising to request that a social land concession be granted to them.Dork Sothea, pr

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