Cambodia slashes garment factory wages
CSR Asia, China
AFP has reported that Cambodia’s parliament has approved a controversial wage cut for garment factory workers that will reduce nightshift pay by 70 percent. The amendment to existing labour laws is hoped to encourage companies in the key textile sector to begin staffing their factories in the evening, with the aim of creating as many as 200,000 new jobs, labour minister Vong Soth told lawmakers. Nightshift workers had previously received twice the daily rate, which in Cambodia averages around 50 US dollars a month.
The kingdom’s largest trade union has threatened a nation-wide strike if the salary cut was approved. Union leader Chea Mony said he would not accept the amendment
