Stop Child Labor in Tycoon’s Sugar Factory – MPs Take Action

A child cutting sugar cane for sugar factory (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)

January 25, 2013
By Mu Sochua

MPs from Sam Rainsy Party made the following request to the prime minister to improve working conditions in tycoon’s sugar plantation:

1. to ensure a monitoring system for the recruitment of workers to prevent child labor;
2. monitoring of working conditions inside the sugar plantation;
3. ensure workers’ rights to organize union according to the Labor Law;
4. to allow visit of the factory by local authorities;
5. the sugar factory should compensate farmers made landless;
6. the sugar factory should train farmers in buy their cane sugar at market price