Private sector worried over universal wage law
Moeun Tola, director of labour rights group Central, said that if a universal minimum wage is adopted, it should reflect the increased cost of living, not an employer’s perception of productivity or profits.
Tola questioned over Kem Ley funeral funds
“I told the court that the committee for the funeral was not involved with the money. It was the family who controlled and managed the funds,” Tola said to reporters outside of court.
Boiler explosion injures 19
Regardless, Tola said improved inspector training and stricter regulations were needed to curb a rise in steam boiler explosions, with at least four accidents this year.
PM targets short contracts in latest bid to woo garment workers
“I just hope that the comments from the Prime Minister may reactivate the law enforcement,” he said, arguing that if the Labour Law were applied correctly, short-term contracts would automatically be converted to unlimited duration contracts after two years.
Garment worker dies of heart attack
A 28-year-old garment worker died yesterday after fainting on her way into the Star Fuyu Garment Company Limited in Meanchey district’s Stung Meanchey commune.
As Cambodia crackdown gathers steam, opposition wonders, ‘Who’s next?’
The opposition leader is in jail charged with treason, senior party officials have fled abroad and fear is spreading through Cambodia’s civil society as a government crackdown intensifies ahead of national elections next year.
Migrants to gain legal status
Mr Tola, executive director of the Centre for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights, denied the allegation. “I deny what the minister accused me of,” he said. “We work hard with Cambodian workers in Thailand and we want to see all workers abroad return to vote, but we do not order them who to vote for. “They have the right to decide their vote for themselves.”
Cambodian lobbyist can be awarded Swedish prize
Lobbying is an important tool in the fight to reduce poverty and strengthen human rights. There is an enormous power in the work of these candidates to change laws and working conditions.
Hun Sen vows benefits for factory workers
Moeun Tola, of labour rights organisation Central, said that he was concerned the promises were merely a political move to gain votes ahead of national election in 2018, and worried they wouldn’t lead to substantial change.
NEC to begin registering voters it missed for 2017
Moeun Tola, head of labour rights group Central, said the NEC and government had a constitutional obligation to ensure people were registered even if they lived overseas.
Ending Modern Day Slavery
For an estimated 4 million Burmese migrants in Thailand with few job opportunities, the promise to work on a fishing boat — as a dockworker or in seafood processing facilities — is often too good to pass up. But this industry has some of the worst labor trafficking in the world.
Cambrew case against worker reps partly dismissed
The director of labour rights group Central, Moeun Tola, said that the ruling against Mao was part of a pattern of silencing unions, adding that “everyone understands that the court system is not independent and it’s used as a political tool”.
Government Faces Accusations of Suppressing Workers’ Votes
Labor rights activists urged the government on Wednesday to help hundreds of thousands of workers who have migrated within the country to vote on Sunday, with a political analyst saying their potential disenfranchisement could swing the elections to the ruling party.
Experts Call on Gov’t to Encourage Garment Workers to Vote
Election observers and labor rights campaigners said without clear guidance many could be excluded from the results.
With the commune elections just around the corner, the government has yet to come up with a plan to help garment workers get to the polls.
Maids ban set to end this month
“Our maids are still being overworked, either by having to do more than one job or being made to work up to 20 hours a day,” Mr Tola, the executive director of Centre for the Alliance of Labour and Human Rights alleged.
Poverty drives wages down
“The company blame a worker who has been arrested by the police” says Tola Mouen at the human rights organisation the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights, Central.
Making Wage Protest Illegal
“Workers that demand higher wages risk punishment by law if the proposal is passed, says Tola Mouen, the head of Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights. In the past, the Center has criticized the Swedish multinational H&M for not taking adequate responsibility for the working conditions at subcontractors.
Veng Sreng scars still haunt unions
It's been three years, but the emotion is still palpable when Khim Souern talks about the morning of January 3, 2014.
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