{"id":2312,"date":"2020-01-14T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:56:39","slug":"nagacorp-strike-wages-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nagacorp-strike-wages-casino","title":{"rendered":"NagaCorp deny wage increase for workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gambling operator denies local media claims that striking workers have received a pay rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia.- NagaCrop has issued a statement saying that striking workers have returned to their roles without the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/strike-casino-nagacorp-cambodia\">18 per cent to 30 per cent pay rise<\/a> some local media outlets reported they had received yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the employees who participated in the illegal strike have returned to work on 12 January 2020 without any wage increases\u201d, the company said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Saturday, Reuters reported that NagaWorld had reached a negotiated settlement with workers who were asking for higher wages and the reinstatement of their suspended union president, Chhim Sithar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NagaWorld made no mention of the reinstatement of union leader Chhim Sithar, with local media saying he had been returned to his role as part of the settlement agreement with workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NagaCorp confirmed that in spite of the worker&#8217;s strike last week, business continued as usual during the weekend and that the company expects \u201cno negative impact\u201d on its operations and financial performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Company wishes to inform that all business operations of the Group remained normal during the illegal strike and the Board expects that the above matter has had no negative impact on the business operations and financial performance of the Group.\u201d<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambling operator denies local media claims that striking workers have received a pay rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"NagaCorp has denied local media claims that striking workers received an 18-30% pay rise, stating all employees returned to their roles on January 12, 2020, without wage increases. The company asserted that despite the \"illegal strike,\" business operations remained normal, anticipating no negative impact on its financial performance or operations. This contradicts some reports of a negotiated settlement and the reinstatement of a union leader.","focusai_entities":"NagaCorp, NagaWorld, Reuters, Chhim Sithar","focusai_location":"Cambodia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Union Leader Status","query":"What is the definitive status of union president Chhim Sithar's employment and reinstatement, given conflicting reports from NagaCorp and local media?"},{"label":"Long-term Labor Impact","query":"What are the potential long-term implications of this unresolved labor dispute on NagaCorp's operational stability, employee morale, and future industrial relations, particularly concerning potential future disruptions to GGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16333],"tags":[96,30,29,2336],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-asia","tag-cambodia","tag-casino","tag-nagacorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21284,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/21284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}