Archive for Labor Blawg

US immigration law under fire

The New York Times wrote in its headlines today, “Employers Fight Tough Measure on Immigration.” It’s about a law passed in 2007 that provides for license revocation of businesses caught twice with illegal immigrants. Its enactment led to about 5,000 arrests in workplaces in 2007 alone. A large circle of employers nationwide have reacted negatively to the law and therefore moved to have it amended for their benefit. In fact, in Arizona last week, an employer group presented “more than 284,000 signatures — far more than needed — for a November ballot initiative that would make the 2007 law even friendlier to employers,” according to the news.

How Arbitration Council decides whether a labor dispute is individual or collective

For your background information, the Arbitration Council (AC) is a tripartite body that arbitrate labor disputes in Cambodia. It was established in May 2003 in accordance with the 1997 Labor Law (Art. 310-17). Although Cambodia is in the process of establishing an arbitration body for commercial disputes, the AC is now the only body doing [...]

Infrastructure, raw materials important for Cambodia’s textile

High-tech manufacturing equipment and ability to produce its own raw materials are essential to make Cambodia a more competitive garment producer in the world market, according to a $395 report by Research And Market.
The excerpt from the “Prospects for the Textile and Garment Industry in Cambodia” mentioned that the country’s garment Industry has evolved to [...]

Labor Forum calls for halt to union discrimination

More than 20 NGOs and unions took part in the Labor Forum at the World Vision Cambodia ’s headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday to seek a halt to discrimination against trade unions, according to Cambodian Press Review on June 20, 2008 which reviewed Rasmei Kampuchea and Koh Santepheap, the two leading Khmer language newspapers in [...]

NGO’s role in improving access to labor justice

Two stories on labor matters were reported in Khmer by Radio Free Asia yesterday. The first one said that Chinese supervisors drove Cambodian workers into the wild in Kampot province, beat them up and finally abandoned them. The second reported that a Thai worker hit a Cambodian worker.
All they could do to have their [...]

Child Workers in Brick Factories: Causes and Consequences

Child Workers in Brick Factories: Causes and Consequences is a research by the LICADHO and World Vision Cambodia. Led by Dr. Poch Bunnak, the study was conducted in Jul7 2007 to identify the causes and consequences of child labor in brick factories in Battambang and Sangke districts of Battambang province.
Data was collected using interviewer-completed [...]

Debate over mandatory arbitration in employment dispute

It’s an old article written by Fitz as far back as 1999 but there may be something in his article interesting for the development of the Cambodia-based Arbitration Council.
Debate over mandatory arbitration in employment disputes, The[...]
Dispute Resolution Journal, Feb 1999, by Fitz, Andrea
I will sure read it once I’ve known what exactly to do for [...]

Advantages of arbitration

Arbitration offers overwhelming advantages over litigation in resolution of labor disputes. The three most significant advantages are as follows:[1]

arbitrators are considered to have specialized expertise than judges in the matter they are hearing;[2]
parties in question could better maintain their employment relationship in the arbitration proceedings than in the litigation as they are entitled to [...]