On the morning of December 4, more than 200 workers went to strike at a garment factory on Insein Road in Taksim Chih-hee District and made a number of subsidy requests to the factory. This time the prime minister all came out to exhort the workers not to strike and seal up!

The workers are required to pay annual subsidy, annual leave allowance, transport allowance, mental compensation (to be paid when employee or factory liquidation is dismissed) and other expenses.

Hun Sen urged workers not to strike closure

Hun Sen urged workers to face labor disputes not to use road closures to protest. After all, this would cause trouble to ordinary citizens, especially people who are going to the hospital or have other urgent needs because of illness. The government will make every effort to coordinate the solution to the problem and will not listen to the incitement and rumor of the minority.

 

 

Acacia District Deputy District Chief, Ministry of Labor representatives involved in coordination. After many consultations, the final result has not yet been reached.

Deputy Chief Constable, Police, Labor Department representatives and factory representatives

Deputy mayor said on the 6th again with the factory to coordinate, try to meet the reasonable requirements of workers. Please wait for the results of the patient patiently, do not organize activities that endanger public safety and social order.

 

 

Deputy mayor asked the workers to wait patiently for the result

Last Friday (1 January), a factory worker at Insein Road went on strike and blocked the road, resulting in a serious traffic jam at Insein Road. In addition to mentioning these requirements, workers also requested the factory to reissue the year-end bonus from 2010 to 2017. Workers said the plant has never issued year-end bonuses for nearly eight years. It is reported that the plant a total of nearly 5,000 employees.

The end of the year, the workers strikes occur frequently, the factory owner is also a headache.

Some netizens said that strike at any time, the boss scared off, who also later to open a factory investment.

Some netizens also said that strikes this year are fewer than in previous years, and the quality of workers has also been markedly improved. In the past, there were striking factories and smashed factories.

500 workers strike

On the morning of January 1, an EVC factory worker at Insein Road called out for work and blocked the road, resulting in the inaccessibility of the Yongsheng Road and the heavy congestion on the road.

 

 

EVC factory workers strike closure

It is learned that workers strike closure because I heard the factory to change the boss, to the factory made 5 requirements:

1, the contract terminated 5% compensation

2, pensions

3, year-end bonuses

4, information fees

5, mental compensation

Morning Bosensei District police intervened in coordination, saying it would help workers solve the problem, the workers agreed to disperse the vehicle traffic.

Police involved in coordination

During the morning consultations, the representatives of the factory claimed that workers' strikes did not meet the requirements of the factories and that the factories did not have these 5 rules put forward by workers. This is the rule set by the workers themselves.

At 2 p.m., the workers sealed the road again.

The police at Sennacherique indicated that they would coordinate and require workers to disperse the road first.

Shawn, chairman of the Cambodian Federation of Trade Unions, said that the worker called for a strike because he was forced to go to the streets after he was forced to change his employer and was not instructed by any organization. Shawn also called on workers to disperse the pedestrian vehicles for traffic, sealing the road is illegal. Trade unions and labor ministries have stepped in to find ways to help workers solve problems.

 

 

Protest not on time pay workers strike closure

On the morning of November 20, in order to protest the factory from paying wages on time, more than 200 workers in a garment factory blocked Route 21.

The road closures took place in Da Jinou, the province of Laos Province. On May 17 this year, a similar strike closure incident occurred in the factory.

A worker at the plant asserted that the factory would use various excuses to delay each paycheck. In fact, this is the fourth time the road closures, are now accustomed to pay in this way.

Another woman worker said that from the 11th of this month, some workers started to strike, but the factory has been ignored.

"We also know that the road closures are unlawful and affect the normal traffic order. However, we are compelled to do the same. Renting a house to pay rent and the landlord has been urging it is really going to go away. I hope relevant departments can intervene as soon as possible Help us solve the salary problem. "The woman worker said.

Strike workers to seal the road

It is learned that after the relevant departments, after an an morning consultation with the factory representatives and the workers' representatives, the factory promised to give each worker 50 U.S. dollars at 2 pm today, the workers still disagreed and demanded all wages.

A total of 935 workers were employed in the plant, 183 of whom had paid their salaries and 700 more had not been paid. About 200 workers participated in the road closures and some went on strike in the factory.

Strike from time to time, need to re-examine Cambodia's investment advantage

Production and investment received obstacles

The continuous strike in Cambodia has led to the postponement of business delivery. Although the customer business to understand the situation, but the adverse effects caused can only be borne by the manufacturer. During the workers strike and demonstrations, the normal production of the factory was forced to stop, which led directly to the delay of delivery of some orders and even disrupted subsequent logistics plans. It is hard to estimate and compensate for a series of losses such as delayed delivery due to strike and damaged corporate reputation.

Shake foreign confidence

In addition to the production impact, the tight labor relations in Cambodia have adversely affected the country's investment attractiveness. Many enterprises that are waiting to invest in Cambodia said: "Workers' strike demonstrations in the capital Phnom Penh are fierce. Even if the incident is subsided, it will be difficult to ensure that such situations will not happen again in the future." This situation caused many Entrepreneurs wishing to invest and set up factories in Cambodia feel worried.

Garment industry is a pillar industry in Cambodia. Foreign investment also provides more employment opportunities for the local garment industry to promote its domestic economic development. The strike has caused tremendous damage to the Cambodian economy. The foreign investors' confidence and trust in the government's maintenance of stability and law and order have also been hit hard.

Cost advantage gradually lost, stable production is difficult to guarantee

In the past few years, due to the general rise in the cost of manufacturing in China, most apparel brands began to shift manufacturing factories to Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia and Bangladesh. Although this move will allow these countries to grow their garment exports, due to the imbalanced economic development, there are still many problems exposed by these countries. Cambodia's minimum monthly wage and mandatory welfare policies have come into force. This move undoubtedly aggravated the operating burden of local enterprises and foreign-funded garment enterprises.

What worries most entrepreneurs or investors who are interested in investing is not just the rise in labor costs, but the workers strike from time to time! While the strike caused losses to the factory operators, it could not help but re-examine Cambodia's investment advantage.