Original News by BWI, 2/9/2010
KC GECIN Enterprise is continuously defying the right of Freedom of Association and steps up challenging the industrial relation mechanism of Cambodia.
KC GECIN Enterprise is continuously defying the right of Freedom of Association and steps up challenging the industrial relation mechanism of Cambodia.
The union members who belong to Building and Wood Workers Federation
of Cambodia- BWTUC, an affiliate of BWI, has launched a strike last
month to protest the KC GECIN management’s unfair labour practice by
illegally dismissing the employment contract of workers who attended a
legitimate labour seminar and later on the leaders and activists of the
union.
On the third week of the strike, based on the Cambodian Labour
law the industrial dispute was referred to the Labour Arbitration
Council – the respectable tripartite dispute mechanism in the absence of
industrial courts.
Based on the industrial relations laws, the LAC
has issued an order enjoining workers on strike and who were not fired
by company to return to work and the company must accept them with
pre-conditions. While those illegally dismissed workers will have to
cease from further industrial actions until the decision of the LAC is
promulgated.
Yet, the company defied the order and refused to accept those
workers who joined the strike but were not yet illegally dismissed and
even ordered to security personnel to harass them by shooing them away
from the company premises. This is almost tantamount to another act of
illegal dismissal. The company is behaving as if it is above the
Cambodian Constitution and labour laws.
The BWTUC is calling upon the BWI and other kindred organisations to
continue supporting the online campaign demanding the KC GECIN to
reinstate all dismissed and striking workers without pre-conditions;
recognise the union and participate in good faith in the collective
bargaining negotiation as primary step to restore the normalcy in the
company’s labour relations.
Also, demanding the company to take part in
the hearing of the LAC with the provision of accepting as binding its
ruling over the case.
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