Cambodia firms demand stricter union bill to halt 'illegal' strikes

Cambodia firms demand stricter union bill to halt 'illegal' strikes

Reuters

Rival Vietnam is seeing record foreign investments into its far larger garments and shoes industry, helped by tariff perks from multilateral trade deals and cheaper wages than China. Myanmar is courting factory investment with its low wages and tax ...

Labour shortages as farmers cash in on rising land prices

Labour shortages as farmers cash in on rising land prices

The Phnom Penh Post

Despite an overall increase of 39 per cent in rice exports in 2015 compared to 2014, unstable profits garnered from small family-owned farms and the influx of factories are luring farmers away from the agricultural sector as they aim to cash in on ...

5 dead, 65 injured in Cambodian garment worker truck crash

5 dead, 65 injured in Cambodian garment worker truck crash

Fox News

Cambodia's clothing and footwear industry is the country's biggest export earner, employing about 700,000 people in more than 700 garment and shoe factories. Road accidents are a leading cause of death in Cambodia. According to report from Transport ...

 

First on CNN: Obama to push to clear leftover Vietnam-era bombs

First on CNN: Obama to push to clear leftover Vietnam-era bombs

CNN

In recent years, the Obama administration has increased programs to help Southeast Asian countries along the Mekong River -- Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam -- by improving their infrastructure, health and education systems while quietly expanding ...

Do you ever wonder where your clothes come from?

Do you ever wonder where your clothes come from?

Evening Echo Cork

Broadcaster Deirdre O'Shaughnessy spoke to some of Cork's fashionistas about the importance of shopping ethically, before she flew to Cambodia to meet with garment workers, who are demonstrating for fair pay, shorter shifts, toilet breaks, and other ...

AsiaInspection Q1 Barometer: 2015 Ends with Exploding Hoverboards and Growing ...

AsiaInspection Q1 Barometer: 2015 Ends with Exploding Hoverboards and Growing ...

Business Wire (press release)

Inspection failure rates in 2015 saw a booming +13% in Pakistan, +11% in Thailand, +9% in Vietnam, and +4% in Cambodia. Even the more mature ... A recent investigation revealed extensive use of slave labor in the peeling of shrimp. Thailand's seafood ...

Committee wraps up trade union law talks

Committee wraps up trade union law talks

The Phnom Penh Post

... controversial draft trade union law wrapped up its activities yesterday, ultimately making few of the substantive changes that unions demanded. Two main changes were agreed to during yesterday's meet, which was held at the Peace Palace in Phnom ...

Clothing makers promote better working conditions in Asia

Clothing makers promote better working conditions in Asia

Nikkei Asian Review

Leading global apparel brands recently began relocating their production sites from increasingly costly China to locations with cheaper labor, such as Bangladesh and Myanmar, where working environments are generally poor. Zara's owner, Inditex of Spain ...

Localising production chains best for AEC | Bangkok Post: news

Localising production chains best for AEC | Bangkok Post: news

Bangkok Post

Labourers work at a garment factory in Vietnam. Garment makers are slowly moving their production ... The relocation of garment factories from Thailand to Cambodia, for example, shows how garment production could deepen within the region. The ...

Committee wraps up trade union law talks

Committee wraps up trade union law talks

The Phnom Penh Post

... controversial draft trade union law wrapped up its activities yesterday, ultimately making few of the substantive changes that unions demanded. Two main changes were agreed to during yesterday's meet, which was held at the Peace Palace in Phnom ...

AsiaInspection Q1 Barometer: 2015 Ends with Exploding Hoverboards and Growing ...

AsiaInspection Q1 Barometer: 2015 Ends with Exploding Hoverboards and Growing ...

Business Wire (press release)

Inspection failure rates in 2015 saw a booming +13% in Pakistan, +11% in Thailand, +9% in Vietnam, and +4% in Cambodia. Even the more mature ... A recent investigation revealed extensive use of slave labor in the peeling of shrimp. Thailand's seafood ...

Union Officials Released on Bail Following Clash at Factory

Union Officials Released on Bail Following Clash at Factory

The Cambodia Daily

Central to the strife is the Trade Union Workers Federation of Progress Democracy, which is the only union registered at the factory, and whose head, Sok Ravuth, also serves as an adviser to management. In October, two workers attempting to establish ...

Committee wraps up trade union law talks

Committee wraps up trade union law talks

The Phnom Penh Post

... controversial draft trade union law wrapped up its activities yesterday, ultimately making few of the substantive changes that unions demanded. Two main changes were agreed to during yesterday's meet, which was held at the Peace Palace in Phnom ...

Cambodia firms demand stricter union bill to halt 'illegal' strikes

Cambodia firms demand stricter union bill to halt 'illegal' strikes

Reuters

PHNOM PENH Jan 18 Business owners in Cambodia urged lawmakers to introduce stricter measures to a controversial draft trade union law on Monday to stabilise a vital manufacturing sector plagued by unrest, warning the current bill was too lenient ...

Firms Warn Weak Union Law Could Scare Away Investors

Firms Warn Weak Union Law Could Scare Away Investors

Khmer Times

While unions fear the new law could restrict union activity and erode worker rights, Van Sou Ieng, the president of CAMFEBRA, warned yesterday that Cambodia may face a loss of investment in garment factories if the law is perceived as being too lenient

Lack of Lady Leaders Hinders Labor Movement

Lack of Lady Leaders Hinders Labor Movement

The Cambodia Daily

The International Labor Organization's (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) project said in its 2015 annual report that while some labor standards have improved, 50 of the factories it monitored engaged in different forms of gender discrimination ...

Factory Boss Seeks to Empower His CambodianWorkers

Factory Boss Seeks to Empower His CambodianWorkers

Voice of America

A maverick Dutch owner of a factory in Cambodiais trying to demonstrate that socially responsible entrepreneurial enterprises, not reliance on non-governmental organizations, is the Southeast Asian nation's best path out of poverty. “This is the only ...

Labor Leaders Fear Union Law Will Pass Without Meaningful Changes

Labor Leaders Fear Union Law Will Pass Without Meaningful Changes

VOA Khmer (English)

Yang Sophoan, president of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions, urged lawmakers to remove provisions that make it difficult to protect workers' rights. Some provisions need to be cut completely, otherwise the law “doesn't protect the interests of ...

Cambodia: Revise Union Law to Protect Worker Rights

Cambodia: Revise Union Law to Protect Worker Rights

Human Rights Watch

(New York) – The Cambodian government should revise the draft trade union law submitted to the National Assembly to ensure it fully protects all workers' rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should promptly set a date for a “national ...

Cambodia garment factory owners ask government to help quash strike by workers

Cambodia garment factory owners ask government to help quash strike by workers

Minneapolis Star Tribune

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Garment factory owners in Cambodia asked the government on Thursday to help stop a strike by workers for higher wages, saying the labor action is damaging the investment climate for the industry, the country's main source of ...

Clothing and cotton still on child labour list

Clothing and cotton still on child labour list

just-style.com (subscription)

The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MOLVT) created 24 inter-departmental inspection teams, which include a child labour inspector, and significantly increased the number of inspections and trained inspectors to conduct investigations. They ...

Thousands of Cambodian Factory Workers Went on Strike

Thousands of Cambodian Factory Workers Went on Strike

Sourcing Journal Online

Employing more than 700,000 people, the garment and footwear industry accounts for around 80 percent of Cambodia's exports, mainly to the U.S. and the E.U., and is worth more than $5 billion annually. Workers also had to settle for less last year, when ..

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Gov't Moves to Expand Healthcare for Garment Workers

Gov't Moves to Expand Healthcare for Garment Workers

Khmer Times

Workers in the textile and footwear industry will have their medical expenses covered by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), following a sub-decree issued yesterday , and officials at the Labor Ministry said workers would spend less than

Clothing and cotton still on child labour list

Clothing and cotton still on child labour list

just-style.com (subscription)

The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MOLVT) created 24 inter-departmental inspection teams, which include a child labour inspector, and significantly increased the number of inspections and trained inspectors to conduct investigations. They ...

Over 140 Cambodian garment factories shut shop

Over 140 Cambodian garment factories shut shop

Fibre2fashion.com

Almost 150 garment and footwear factories shut down this year, while more than 50 new ones opened, according to a report of the Cambodian Commerce Ministry. The Cambodian garment industry has recently been rocked by strikes by workers demanding ...