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| Cambodian migrants who were forced to work at a factory in Japan for a fraction of the pay they were promised speak to Cambodian embassy staff at their residence in Ibaraki prefecture. Photograph: supplied |
Pay, hours prompt Japan exit
Monday, 25 June 2012
Sen David
The Phnom Penh Post
Eight Cambodians recruited for agricultural work in Japan have been repatriated after they were forced to work at a food factory for a fraction of the pay they were promised, the returnees said yesterday.
Five men and three women from Kandal and Pursat provinces returned home on Friday night with assistance from the Cambodian embassy in Japan.
They allege they signed up for agricultural work through the Cambodian branch of Japanese organisation Inaho Kyodoh Kumiai, but were made to work at Family Foods, in Ibaraki prefecture, when they arrived.
A thumbprinted statement by the workers obtained by the Post said the factory had forced them to work more than 13 hours a day at half the salary they had been promised, some for more than a year.
“We did not have any freedom to relax. If they found us talking to Japanese or entering into a relationship with them, they would cut our salary,” the document states.
Noun Rany, 24, from Kandal, said the embassy had come to their aid after Japanese authorities discovered their paperwork permitted them to work only in agriculture.
“Because I was working in the wrong place, the company then threatened to send me back without compensation. I called the embassy for help,” he said.
Sin Sovanna, 33, from Pursat, said she had worked in Japan for 10 months and was relieved to be home.
“I enlisted with the company because I had heard from a friend and neighbour that they were getting a high salary. But my salary was cut while I worked there, so I’m so happy to come back,” she said.
Ten Borany, deputy director of the Ministry of Interior’s Anti-Human Trafficking department, said it was further investigating Family Foods and Inaho Kyodoh Kumiai, which along with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, could not be reached yesterday.
4 comments:
it goes to show problems exist everywhere with anybody, so get educated for a change, ok! there's no such thing as perfection in this world of ours, so stop living in la la land, ok! do the right thing!
This is the legacy of AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave regime! The goal of AH HUN SEN is to export dirt poor Cambodian people as slave around the world!
The Cambodian branch of Japanese organisation Inaho Kyodoh Kumiai still operating in Cambodia!
Well! Since AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave got his Phd from Hanio and what the fuck he is going to do about it?
Sound like you are not educated yourself , these migrant workers are
between 24 and 33 years old . When they were born their parents just
struggling to survive after they were stripped off everything during Pol Pot.
Between 80's and 90's Cambodia was still at war and PP government
faced sanction economically and politically ; very few children were lucky
enough to attend school if they were in towns or capitals . Farmers' children at remote areas like Pursat did not have any chance at all .Even
today , good education with job garanty is reserved , mostly for the children
of elites . This is Cambodia , not America . the whole schooling system needed to be overhauled first . Cambodia has many person with doctor
degrees .I am not sure if they are educated but sure they have good job
with money and power ; so back off the educated for now until the old , corrupt one are gone .
Whatta fuck AH KEE BANH 1:07AM is talking about? you're dumb mothafuka, this is your ignorant HUN SEN'S LEADERSHIP, if he's genius... no cambodian would be fled to abroad to be a slave.
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