Some 400 garment workers yesterday gathered outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to plead for government intervention against a factory owner who fled without paying them overdue wages three months ago.

Khem Chamnan, a Free Trade Union representative from the Pine Great (Cambodia) factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, said this was the third gathering in as many months.

“The employer of the factory fled in April without paying wages to the workers . . . but they did not get anything until now,” he said.

Some 400 garment workers yesterday gathered outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to plead for government intervention against a factory owner who fled without paying them overdue wages three months ago.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – July 02, 2013)