Recent News

21
Aug

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.
02
Aug

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.
24
Jul

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”.
01
Jun

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.
30
May

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.
12
May

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.
08
May

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.

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