Cambodia textile industry. Labor Rights Abuses in Cambodia’s Garment Industry 2019-02-02
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Based on her discussions with garment workers in other factories who live around her, she believes such announcements are common. One day in November 2013 she had a bad nosebleed and sought exemption from overtime work. Cambodia's emerging has received strong international support. Undermining Workers Ability to Take Needed Breaks A consistent complaint by workers from different factories—direct suppliers and subcontractors—was that they were forced to work without adequate breaks for trips to the bathroom or to get a drink of water. Such due diligence should identify potential adverse human rights impacts and ways to prevent them. Though most tourists spend a small amount of time in the country generally, their stays are gradually lengthening as remote provinces like Sihanoukville, Kampot, Kep, Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri begin to attract tourists away from the temples at Siem Reap.
Apparel brands should also periodically and regularly review their purchasing and pricing practices to analyze how they influence labor conditions in sourcing factories. We recognize that this makes it more difficult for the brands to respond to specific cases, but hope that this will encourage them to address the broader issues. Labor Law and Pregnancy The Cambodian Constitution forbids employers from firing women on the basis of pregnancy, but is silent on pregnancy-based discrimination in hiring and promoting. Regardless, the number of visitors reached 4. A Cambodian worker can earn about 50 euros a month. The factory also subcontracted with other large factories in the Svay Rolum and Sethbau areas in Kandal province that produce for international brands. To learn how to add text to Wikipedia articles, please see.
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Along with making value-added products, the industry is keen to see more local fabric production, since the overwhelming majority comes from imports. We were giggling with the pile of clothes on us. Indeed, the clothing industry in particular represents Cambodia's largest manufacturing sector, and directly employs over 500,000 people. Drawing on the expertise and credibility that we have built over the years and contextualising them with our in-depth research studies, we produce authentic news, articles, reports, interviews and interactive explainers through the F2F Magazine and compendiums, among others, which help readers stay abreast with the industry trends. Investors were able to overcome Cambodia's disadvantages in infrastructure and human capital development, inter alia by bringing in technical and supervisory personnel from abroad. Goland Mortaza, and Donghyun Park, 2015.
The factories did not have a legally mandated infirmary even though there were more than 50 workers in each factory. Po Pov, in her 30s, works in the sewing division of factory 3 on a three-month contract. Most of the workers interviewed by Human Rights Watch reported working between three and five hours of overtime per day. But where they did, their entire attendance bonus was deducted. But in 1999, the first full year of relative peace in 30 years, progress was made on economic reforms and growth resumed at 4%. Pay for a 12-hour working day can be as little as 60 euro cents.
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The combination of short-term contracts that make it easier to fire and control workers, poor government labor inspection and enforcement, and aggressive tactics against independent unions make it difficult for workers, the vast majority of whom are young women, to assert their rights. This can shorten lead time and lower costs for customers. Proposed changes will reflect the indicators being developed by the global Better Work program. But there were no minimum guarantees for workers and unions who took risks while reporting an undeclared manufacturing site. A Failure of Government Accountability The Cambodian government has obligations under international law to ensure that the rights of workers are respected, and that when abuses occur, they have access to redress.
Labor Rights Abuses in Cambodia’s Garment Industry
Another worker described how the mechanic in her factory harassed her: The mechanic comes to look at my machine. In a written communication to Human Rights Watch, they said that in the past 10 years only one case of unauthorized subcontract was brought to their attention and the business relationship was not severed. Workers were not paid any special overtime rates for work on Sundays and public holidays. Depending on the design, I will have 30 or 50 pieces of clothing piled on my desk within five minutes. They also reported that the factory employed some children below the legally permissible age of 15, and that those children were made to work as hard as the adults. Many factories directly supplying to international brands subcontract to other, often smaller, factories that are subjected to little or no monitoring and scrutiny.
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Some factory managers made announcements using the public announcement system, sent messages through team leaders, or called workers and warned them that they should not report their working conditions to visitors. In theory, these factories should have also been subject to multiple government labor inspections and enforcement actions. Where production is outsourced without the prior permission of the brand, Human Rights Watch uses the phrase unauthorized subcontracting. An estimated 120,000 girls are currently involved in so-called 'training periods' of up to four years in textile or spinning works here, to earn money for their dowry. In some cases the families themselves pleaded to allow children to work citing poverty. Disclosure International apparel buyers should avoid contributing to adverse human rights impacts either through acts or omissions. This is difficult to verify because the Labor Ministry does not disaggregate data about the complaints it receives by type of complaint.
Eventually, when she was six-months pregnant, the managers dismissed her. While international apparel buyers understandably seek to avoid unauthorized subcontracts, their response to the discovery of unauthorized subcontractor factories should be consistent with the principle of improving human rights for all workers involved in manufacturing their products. Women workers dominate the garment sector. Human Rights Watch documented one or more of these problems in at least 30 factories. I n practice, the Ministry of Justice takes a month or two to issue such certificates.
