More Fined for No Work Permits

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Immigration Police extended their visa raids yesterday to a construction site in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Morn district where 191 foreigners were found without work permits, passports or proper documentation, an official said. In April 2014, the Interior Ministry and Labor Ministry formed a joint-inspection committee to keep an eye on companies employing foreigners and to take a more active role in enforcing the 1997 Labor Law as well as the Immigration Law.
 

These laws require all migrant workers in the Kingdom to hold a work permit along with the appropriate business visa. If found to be employed without a permit, they will have to pay $100 to apply for one and be handed a fine of $125.    “The arrests were carried out to check for proper documents during a raid on a construction site,” Major General Uk Heisela, chief investigator at the Interior Ministry’s immigration department, told Khmer Times about the raid at a site operated by Sino Great Wall.
 

“After questioning, we found that 170 of the 190 Chinese nationals have business visas in their passports, but they don’t have work permits from the Labor Ministry, and the other 20 don’t have passports or proper documentation to stay or work in the Kingdom,” he said. “The 170 people will be fined for lacking work permits and for the 20 Chinese along with one Vietnamese who don’t have passports, they will be deported and permanently barred from returning to Cambodia.”

 

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