CPP asks employers to give workers day off to vote

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The ruling CPP has asked all employers to allow their employees sufficient time off next month to ensure that they can vote in the June 4 commune elections. “The CPP encourages all companies, owners of factories to give workers and their staff, particularly those registered to vote in the commune elections, appropriate time off so that they may have a chance to cast their votes,” a letter from the ruling party says.
 

The CPP also urged the National Election Committee to streamline voting day processes to ensure that voters can cast their ballots quickly and return to their workplace. The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia said it had no authority to force employers to give the day off but lauded the government initiative.
 

“Also, election day falls on a Sunday so I don’t know exactly what the government is asking, maybe they are just suggesting that employers make it easy for workers to apply for leave so that they can return to their provinces to vote,” GMAC deputy secretary-general Kaing Monika said. He insisted that giving workers additional days off to vote was not a prerogative of the government or GMAC and said that the group would not interfere with private businesses.

 

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