Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has issued an announcement urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company, The Phnom Penh Post reported.
The ministry has warned that failure to stay within this limit – or to obtain special permission to exceed it where skilled foreign workers are necessary because of a lack of Cambodians with matching skills – will see businesses punished.
The warning is just the latest move as part of a government push to regulate foreign labour ahead of ASEAN integration in 2015. In July, the ministries of labour and interior announced their intention to begin enforcing laws requiring foreign workers and expatriates to hold work permits. The government is also carrying out a census of immigrants. Cambodians are particularly wary of illegal Vietnamese immigrants – believed to constitute the majority of illegal foreign workers – and 10 have been deported from Ratanakkiri province since the census began.
According to an August 20 announcement from Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng obtained yesterday, companies must abide by set limits for different categories of foreign employees, which can total 10 per cent. Foreign “office workers” can amount to no more than 3 per cent of the total workforce, “skilled” or “specialised” workers are capped at 6 per cent, and unskilled workers at 1 per cent.
According to the Labour Law, companies violating these regulations without obtaining a waiver are “liable to a fine of sixty-one to ninety days of base daily wage or to imprisonment of six days to one month”.
While these laws have been on the books for years, Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour said, many businesses continue to violate them, and the announcement would help “in limiting the number of foreign employees in order to promote our national employees”. “It is also part of our work to more strongly [enforce] foreign workers holding work permits,” he said.
Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has issued an announcement urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company, The Phnom Penh Post reported.
The ministry has warned that failure to stay within this limit – or to obtain special permission to exceed it where skilled foreign workers are necessary because of a lack of Cambodians with matching skills – will see businesses punished.
The warning is just the latest move as part of a government push to regulate foreign labour ahead of ASEAN integration in 2015. In July, the ministries of labour and interior announced their intention to begin enforcing laws requiring foreign workers and expatriates to hold work permits. The government is also carrying out a census of immigrants. Cambodians are particularly wary of illegal Vietnamese immigrants – believed to constitute the majority of illegal foreign workers – and 10 have been deported from Ratanakkiri province since the census began.
According to an August 20 announcement from Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng obtained yesterday, companies must abide by set limits for different categories of foreign employees, which can total 10 per cent. Foreign “office workers” can amount to no more than 3 per cent of the total workforce, “skilled” or “specialised” workers are capped at 6 per cent, and unskilled workers at 1 per cent.
According to the Labour Law, companies violating these regulations without obtaining a waiver are “liable to a fine of sixty-one to ninety days of base daily wage or to imprisonment of six days to one month”.
While these laws have been on the books for years, Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour said, many businesses continue to violate them, and the announcement would help “in limiting the number of foreign employees in order to promote our national employees”. “It is also part of our work to more strongly [enforce] foreign workers holding work permits,” he said.
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