Garment Industry In The Dock Over Cambodia's Poverty Wages 
Adidas and Puma will give evidence in front of a panel of independent judges, alongside workers, manufacturers and other stakeholder groups. H&M and GAP were invited by have refused to attend.
The tribunal, officially called the 'People’s Tribunal on for Minimum Living Wages and Decent Working Conditions for Garment Workers as a Fundamental Right' has been organised by the International Asia Floor Wage Alliance and the Asia Floor Wage Cambodia, both coalitions of garment workers' trade unions and workers' rights groups. It seeks to make public the relevant concerns of those employed in the garment sector in Cambodia.
“Despite experiencing sustained growth in the sector Cambodia’s minimum wage allowance is $66 USD a month and is currently the lowest of all its neighbouring states. It is estimated that this wage amounts to around half that required to adequately meet the average worker’s basic needs.” said Tola Moeun head of Labour Programs for the Community Legal Education Centre (CLEC).
Ath Thorn, president of Cambodian Labour Confederation said that, “Both Better Factories Cambodia and government representatives have attributed the phenomenon of mass fainting directly to inadequate salaries, and the effect these have had on workers' nutrition and their ability to rest. Something must be done about this.”
Labour Behind the Label and the Clean Clothes Campaign will participate in the tribunal and will urge global buyers sourcing from Cambodia to take the findings of the People Tribunal very seriously.
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