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Article

7 Jan 2018

Author:
Sen David, Khmer Times

Cambodia: Factory yields to workers’ demands for better treatment, end to unjustified firings, creation of union, & three months off work for women after childbirth

"Workers win their demands", 04 January 2018

Nearly 7,000 workers from the Taieasy International garment factory in Pursat province returned to work…after reaching a solution to their labour dispute….

They demanded better working conditions, including leniency over employee absences, more respect from managers, an end to unjustified firings, permission to create a union and guarantees that pregnant workers who deliver babies would get three paid months off work.

…The company agreed to cede to all the workers’ demands.