Tag: Garment workers

Garment workers travel to work on trucks in the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Photo taken on September 22, 2022. CamboJA / Pring Samrang

Garment Worker Traffic Deaths Rise, Pointing to Stubborn Safety Issues

28 Jan 2023 7:25 AM|
Phon Sotthyroth|

Despite a range of efforts aimed at lowering traffic deaths among factory workers, 63 garment workers were killed in 2022, while 156 workers overall died…

Garment workers converging for their lunch in front of a factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, January 14, 2022. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Unions want minimum wage increase for garment workers

15 Aug 2022 9:41 PM|
Khuon Narim|

Unions representing Cambodian garment workers say they would like to see an increase in the minimum wage next year, but that companies are hesitant due…

Garment workers travel to work on trucks in Kampong Speu province, Picture taken October 2, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Garment Exports Up, But Workers Worried About Factory Closures

7 May 2022 10:34 AM|
Sorn Sarath|

Phon Touch and Teang Sreytouch have been working for years in Cambodia’s garment industry, but now the two women are worried they could join the…

Thim Votchann, a garment factory worker in Phnom Penh’s Mean Chey district, has held a NSSF card for seven years. Picture taken on 17 March 2022. CamboJA/Kheang Sokmean.

National Social Security Fund card holders claim discrimination

25 Mar 2022 2:49 PM|
Kheang Sokmean|

“In the past, medical staff discriminated against us when we used the NSSF card. We complained to NSSF and later, it got better than before,”…

Garment workers travel on a truck in Kampong Speu’s Kong Pisei district. Picture taken on October 2, 2021. Cambodia/ Pring Samrang

Project aims to improve transportation for garment workers

18 Dec 2021 11:37 AM|
Sovann Sreypich|

In a bid to cut back on deadly traffic incidents, a project is aiming to replace often-perilous truck transports for garment workers with buses and…

A garment worker speaks during a press conference about water prices for garment workers living at rental houses in Phnom Penh, October 1, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Garment workers call on government to tackle high water prices

1 Oct 2021 9:03 PM|
Khy Sovuthy|

Garment workers have called on the government to intervene to ensure that rental house owners are not charging lodgers more than the fixed water price…

Garment workers buy lunch in front of a factory in Kandal province, picture taken on June 4, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Industry, government representatives propose minimum wage decrease for garment workers

14 Sep 2021 9:48 PM|
Khy Sovuthy|

Employers and government representatives have countered union requests to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, instead arguing for a wage decrease in the second…

Garment workers leave a factory after finished their work on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Picture taken on August 18, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

Garment worker minimum wage talks begin, find early disagreement

7 Sep 2021 9:09 PM|
Khuon Narim|

As the first day of a three-way negotiation of the minimum wage for Cambodian garment workers, union and industry representatives have reached an early disagreement…