A wage you can live on - Textile workers in Cambodia
Af film by Helle Løvstø Severinsen. Produced by Clean Clothes Campaign Denmark 2012 for the "No more Excuses" campaign.
Conditions for the garment workers in Cambodia are appalling. Low salaries in the industry force workers to live in small shared rooms, work to much overtime and even make the workers suffer from malnutrition.
The multiple cases of mass fainting at various factories and the continuous wage strikes is a testimony to this. Also the Cambodia Living Wage Tribunal in February 2012 documented the many problems caused by the low salaries.
Read more on http://livingwage.cleanclothes.org
Take note: The minimum wage in Cambodia is 61 US$ plus a 'Cost of living' allowance of 5 US$. On July 11th 2012 the Cambodian Labour Advisory Committe agreed to a transportation and renting house allowance of 7 US$ and an attendant bonus of 10 US$. All in all making it possible for the Cambodian workers to earn 83 US$. Far below the modest 131 US$ wage target from the Cambodian Ministry of Labour and even further from the 275 US$ living wage calculation of the Asia Floow Wage Campaign.
Af film by Helle Løvstø Severinsen. Produced by Clean Clothes Campaign Denmark 2012 for the "No more Excuses" campaign.
Conditions for the garment workers in Cambodia are appalling. Low salaries in the industry force workers to live in small shared rooms, work to much overtime and even make the workers suffer from malnutrition.
The multiple cases of mass fainting at various factories and the continuous wage strikes is a testimony to this. Also the Cambodia Living Wage Tribunal in February 2012 documented the many problems caused by the low salaries.
Read more on http://livingwage.cleanclothes.org
Take note: The minimum wage in Cambodia is 61 US$ plus a 'Cost of living' allowance of 5 US$. On July 11th 2012 the Cambodian Labour Advisory Committe agreed to a transportation and renting house allowance of 7 US$ and an attendant bonus of 10 US$. All in all making it possible for the Cambodian workers to earn 83 US$. Far below the modest 131 US$ wage target from the Cambodian Ministry of Labour and even further from the 275 US$ living wage calculation of the Asia Floow Wage Campaign.
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