50 Fishermen Push Hard for Owed Wages by Taiwanese businessmen

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Khmer Times / Mom Kunthear

Nearly 50 residents of Kampong Chhnang province who were mistreated by the Giant Ocean International Fishery Co. Ltd. while working abroad asked for the assistance of human rights group Adhoc yesterday in order to expedite their former employer’s payment of owed wages, according to the rights group.

Adhoc provincial coordinator Som Chankea said 45 workers of the more than 100 who are still owed wages have been filing complaints to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court since 2012. After noncompliance by the company, their case is now awaiting a hearing in the Supreme Court.

“The victims filed complaints to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and their cases have already reached the Supreme Court,” Mr. Chankea said. “Now I will request my officials at our head office in Phnom Penh to urge the court to take money that the company deposited with the Financial Ministry when it registered for operation in order to pay the workers.”

Lin Li-Chen, the former general manager of Giant Ocean International Company, was arrested in May 2013 in Siem Reap province. She and another five Taiwanese men, who escaped to Taiwan, were each convicted, sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay fines to former workers ranging from $2,000 to $15,000.

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