Protests at Cambodian work agencies
18 September 2014
A protest against a work agency took place in the Cambodian capital this week with 34 people claiming they were sent to Thailand with false job promises, the Phnom Penh Post reports.
Thu, 18 Sep 2014A protest against a work agency took place in the Cambodian capital this week with 34 people claiming they were sent to Thailand with false job promises, the Phnom Penh Post reports.
The people, protesting in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, claimed they paid a $350 (£215) fee to the agency and felt they had been cheated.
Sen Sok’s Kriang Thnong commune police chief Mok Mi said the workers were promised jobs in a food processing plant in Thailand by the Supply and Training Center recruitment agency.
“After the workers protested, we researched the agency and found it was operating illegally. It was not on the list of companies allowed to send workers to Thailand by the Ministry of Labour; it only opened last month,” Mi said.
Police have arrested the agency’s owner, Sek Chakrya, and ordered her to repay the workers.
Another job agency in the capital, Money Center, was also the subject of protests with nine workers claiming to have been cheated in similar circumstances.
The people, protesting in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, claimed they paid a $350 (£215) fee to the agency and felt they had been cheated.
Sen Sok’s Kriang Thnong commune police chief Mok Mi said the workers were promised jobs in a food processing plant in Thailand by the Supply and Training Center recruitment agency.
“After the workers protested, we researched the agency and found it was operating illegally. It was not on the list of companies allowed to send workers to Thailand by the Ministry of Labour; it only opened last month,” Mi said.
Police have arrested the agency’s owner, Sek Chakrya, and ordered her to repay the workers.
Another job agency in the capital, Money Center, was also the subject of protests with nine workers claiming to have been cheated in similar circumstances.
