About 100 domestic workers planned to gather today in front of the Ministry of Labour to mark International Domestic Workers Day by calling on the government to do more to ensure their rights.

Vun Samphors, president of the Cambodian Domestic Workers Network (CDWN), told the Post that participants planned to submit a petition to the ministry.

“I want to [ask] the minister to take legal action and administrative action to protect the rights of domestic workers, such as to study research on the situation of domestic workers in Cambodia and set a decent minimum wage for them.”

Samphors is also calling on the government to ratify the International Labour Organization’s Convention 189, which entitles domestic workers to one day off every week, among other benefits.

Samphors said that ahead of the event the CDWN had distributed hundreds of leaflets to market vendors and homeowners across Phnom Penh to promote the rights of domestic workers.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – June 16, 2014)