The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday his government is pushing ahead with a planned amendment of the labor law to reduce nighttime pay for garment factory workers, who are paid twice as much as those on the day shift.
He said the move is crucial for creating more jobs in an industry, a major hard-currency earner for the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
The country currently has 300 garment factories that employ 355,000 workers. But only about 10 of the factories run night shifts because the higher pay is a "disincentive," said Ken Loo, secretary-general of Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia.
He said lowering nighttime payment will not only create more jobs at the factories but will also increase peripheral economic activities for those operating transport and selling food to the workers at night.
"We've been pushing for this (amendment) for the last seven years, and it's only now that we are making some headway," Loo said. "With the industrialization of the country, we need to embrace the concept of shift."
Under the current law, wage for dayshift garment workers is about US$50 (€37) a month, but the amount is doubled to US$100 (€74) a month for those working at night.
The National Assembly, the country's lower house of parliament, will soon debate and mostly like pass the amendment requested by the government, Hun Sen said. The proposed amendment will allow for an increase of only 30 percent over the daytime payment, he said.
Last year's garment exports from Cambodia were worth about US$2.8 billion (€2 billion), with about 70 percent of the shipments going to retailers in U.S. market, Loo said.
Chea Mony, president of Cambodia's Free Trade Union which has claimed to have 74,000 members, on Tuesday threatened to call a strike against the amendment.
He criticized the government for kowtowing to the garment industry's demand and said the amendment will be disadvantageous for the workers.
"This government has claimed such a move would attract more investment. I do not see it will. Reducing workers' earning is not the factor for luring investors to Cambodia," he said.
The government should instead eradicate corruption, which is scaring investors away, he said.
He said the move is crucial for creating more jobs in an industry, a major hard-currency earner for the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
The country currently has 300 garment factories that employ 355,000 workers. But only about 10 of the factories run night shifts because the higher pay is a "disincentive," said Ken Loo, secretary-general of Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia.
He said lowering nighttime payment will not only create more jobs at the factories but will also increase peripheral economic activities for those operating transport and selling food to the workers at night.
"We've been pushing for this (amendment) for the last seven years, and it's only now that we are making some headway," Loo said. "With the industrialization of the country, we need to embrace the concept of shift."
Under the current law, wage for dayshift garment workers is about US$50 (€37) a month, but the amount is doubled to US$100 (€74) a month for those working at night.
The National Assembly, the country's lower house of parliament, will soon debate and mostly like pass the amendment requested by the government, Hun Sen said. The proposed amendment will allow for an increase of only 30 percent over the daytime payment, he said.
Last year's garment exports from Cambodia were worth about US$2.8 billion (€2 billion), with about 70 percent of the shipments going to retailers in U.S. market, Loo said.
Chea Mony, president of Cambodia's Free Trade Union which has claimed to have 74,000 members, on Tuesday threatened to call a strike against the amendment.
He criticized the government for kowtowing to the garment industry's demand and said the amendment will be disadvantageous for the workers.
"This government has claimed such a move would attract more investment. I do not see it will. Reducing workers' earning is not the factor for luring investors to Cambodia," he said.
The government should instead eradicate corruption, which is scaring investors away, he said.
11 comments:
It is by nature that human body is designed to sleep at night and work in the day time! Now for those people who want to fuck up their sleep pattern and destroy their body inner working mechanism at cellular level and disrupt their biological clock and their health will be fuck up for many years to come!
In advance country like United States, the people work at night shift will always get pay more!!!
Once again AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave had shown his real intelligence influence by his nicotine addition!ahahhahahhah
Yeah, but you don't get double time
for night shift work in the US, do
ya? Furthermore, the US government
have no law to impose company to
pay more for night shift, do they?
Who are you trying to fool, you
piece of shit?
To dumb ass! 7:05AM!
Hey motherfucker! The US especially in California had passed a law to raise "minimum wage" to $8 per hour whether the Company or business like it or not!! Uncle Sam understand that American people need a living wage!
Now just image for moment! Cambodian get pay for $1 aday! If you take $1 divided by full time work of say 8 hours and you will get 12.5 cent per hour! ahahahhahha
Now check this out! Factoring in Inflation, high energy cost, high housing cost, high healthcare cost,...
The fact that Cambodian people get pay $2 for working at night doesn't mean shit when factoring such inflation...AH HUN SEN don't even have a fucken clue to how much Cambodian people should get pay to live as human and now he want to pass a fucken law to take away dirt poor Cambodian people salary?? This is the most ridiculous that I had ever heard!!
The fact that Cambodian people got paid $2 dollars for working at night for seven years mean that it is possible to pay Cambodian people that amount due to supply and demand!! These damn factories can choose to open more factories in day time if they really want to save their bottom line so much!!!
The fact that there are only 10 out of 300 factories running at night time and so what? This is so fucken cheap to have 10 factories change Cambodian law!!ahahhahahhah
I like to see AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave pass anti-corruption law which will effect the whole Cambodia and who know maybe the 300 factories not 10 factories will get their wish!
Yeah, but you don't have any law to
make any company to pay 200% to
people who works night. I mean not
even 100.001%, moron, so why
should we have such law?
To 5:57PM dumb ass!
Say what motherfucker! I can't understand your fucken writing anway!!! I don't even understand what the fuck are you trying tell me!!!
Do you understand the so called " a living wage?"
Damn this motherfucker is so hard to talk with!!!Get the fuck outta my face!!!
What I am saying is you fool has
no law requiring any company to
pay people more for working night,
so don't try to force us to have
such idiotic law. Get it now?
To 8:28AM Dumb ass!
What? Who the fuck are you?? Are you trying to speak for the factories owner association???
Fuck you!!!!!
Hey dumb ass! Due to supply and demand, the factories owner can afford to pay Cambodian people to work at night at that rate for 7 years!!!If these factories really want to watch their bottom line so much and why not expand their operation in the day time instead of night time???It doesn't take a fucken genius to figure that out!!!!Duh!
Here another bad things for those people who want to work at night! These workers especially women will be robbed, killed, hit by drunk drivers,sexually assulted,...on their home!!!Most services are shut down even some clinics!!These Cambodian workers who want to work at night time are asking for death sentence especailly the way they get paid!!!It ain't worth the fucken money for 1 or 2 dollars work at night!!! Just stay home for your safety and well being!!!!!
From economic point of view, Cambodian people had been paying the same salary for 7 years straigth with no raise in salary whatsoever!!Now alot of shits are happening during the 7 years due to economic change and inflation...
Right now the dollar value is going down and Uncle SAM passed a law right away to protect the working poor espcially in California to $8 per hour!!
I feel that Cambodian people need some protection from the law due to the change in economic environment so that they can support their family! Nobody work for free!!!!
Hey listen up, idiot, if you want
us to support evil laws that
required our corporations to pay
people twice just because they
work at night, we want to see you
do that in the US first, alright?
Or else, just shut the fuck up
because we don't want to hear from
hypocrites.
To 10:59AM! The same dumb ass!
Fuck you and your corporations!
Understand this motherfucker! Cambodian people work for $1 aday!
The US worker works for $8 dollars an hour! And yet Cambodian workers use the same amount of money to buy gasoline to go to work( which is $1 per liter)! the same amount of money to buy foods! the same amount of money to buy medication (mostly fake medication!) the same amount of money for housing!...the same amount of money for almost everything on a fucken $50 a month or even $100 a month salary? Is this your idea of a living wage?? Your fucken concept of $50 or even $100 a month is not even a fucken living wage when you really factoring all the expenditure to live as human in Cambodia!!
Hey fucker! Don't even try to compare to US because Uncle SAM had figured it all out and he makes sure his people earn just enough to pay the living expense!That is why there is a law for the minimum wage! What about Cambodia? Does AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave even try to figure out how much Cambodian people should earn to pay their living expense? Of course not that is why AH HUN SEN is trying to pass a fucken law to cut Cambodian people salary!!
The $50 or even $100 a month salary is a fucken salary for slave workers!!!I know Cambodian workers need more than $100 amonth just to pay all their living expense!!! No Cambodian people can live on $50 or even $100 a month salary! I had been to Cambodia many times and I know first hand!!!Even your fucken so called "200%" is not going to cut it because it not even a living wage!!!!!!!!!!!!
The living wage is far more important than your percentage!!ahhahah Are you trying to fool me with your percentage??ahahhahah
By the way, the US may not have 200% raise for night worker but if you really look at their minimum wage carefully it would be more than 200% raise in salary when comparing with Cambodian worker salary!!This is just day time worker and I am not talking about night time worker!!!
Cambodia worker $1 aday = $50 a month!
US worker(CA)$8 an hour = $64 day of full time work of 8hrs!= $1920 a month salary before tax! Now you know why there is no reason for Uncle SAM to pass a law to increase 200% for night worker!!!ahahhahahhahhaha
Is it too much to ask for Cambodian people to have a living wage????Your factories had made so much profit already!!!I am talking about the clothes exportation in billion of dollar every year and you are contended to pay Cambodian people to live on scrap??? It is true that most Cambodian people are living on scraps from other countries and everything on sale in Cambodian market are trash or scrap or a second handed products or used products from other country!!!
Hey dude, what you don't understand
is in our democracy we served the
interest of the majority first, not
minority. And right now, the
majority wanted jobs, jobs, and
jobs, nothing else, and that's what
we will do for them. We are not
a fake democracy like yours (US).
To 11:29AM punkbitch!!
Shut the fuck up bitch!!!Your argument is fucken flimsy!!!
You bitch always say want job,job, and job but you bitch never do anything to attract more job beside trying to cut dirt poor Cambodian people salary!!!
No fucken businesses would want to operate their fucken business in a corrupted environment and you bitch better move fast in passing anti-corruption law before more businesses move to Vietname or other country!!!
You fucken bitch talk full of nonsense!!!I am done with you motherfucken bitch!!!
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