{"id":31012,"date":"2022-06-22T03:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31012"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:34:40","slug":"nagaworld-workers-demand-government-intervention-in-labour-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nagaworld-workers-demand-government-intervention-in-labour-dispute","title":{"rendered":"NagaWorld workers demand government intervention in labour dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About 100 NagaWorld workers have sent a petition to the government asking it to intervene in a conflict that started in December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Cambodia.- The conflict between NagaWorld and its workers continues. More than 6 months after the conflict began<\/a> in December 2021, about 100 NagaWorld workers have written to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen and to the National Assembly to request their intervention in the dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workers have asked the government to intervene and ensure that close to 200 dismissed workers are reinstated. They also want NagaWorld to pay compensation to those who are willing to accept dismissal and for legal charges against 15 union leaders and activists to be dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to The Phnom Penh Post,\u00a0Chhim Sithar<\/strong>, head of the Labour Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees at NagaWorld (LRSU), said: “We think this is the appropriate time for Prime Minister Hun Sen to help resolve the problem because it appears that all other institutions are biased towards employers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No institution other than the prime minister can intercede and solve this matter.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Ministry of Labor has mediated 13 times already in an attempt to reach a solution and has been unsuccessful. In May,\u00a0a petition had been submitted to the interior and women\u2019s ministries<\/a>\u00a0during a break in protests, which were suspended to allow for negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NagaWorld employees went on strike on December 18, 2021,\u00a0to protest against layoffs and pay cuts<\/strong>, which NagaCorp said were necessary to improve cost efficiencies due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Labor Department, 199 of the initial 373 strikers agreed to accept severance pay from NagaWorld.\u00a0174 workers, however, refuse compensation<\/strong>. There have been several cases of workers being arrested<\/a>\u00a0and claiming mistreatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About 100 NagaWorld workers have sent a petition to the government asking it to intervene in a conflict that started in December last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"An ongoing labor dispute at NagaWorld in Cambodia, initiated in December 2021 over layoffs and pay cuts, continues as approximately 100 workers petition Prime Minister Hun Sen for intervention. Despite 13 mediation attempts by the Ministry of Labor, workers seek reinstatement for nearly 200 dismissed colleagues, compensation, and the dropping of legal charges against union leaders, citing employer bias in existing institutions.","focusai_entities":"NagaWorld, Hun Sen, Chhim Sithar, Labour Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees at NagaWorld (LRSU), NagaCorp, Ministry of Labor, National Assembly, Cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen","focusai_location":"Cambodia, Phnom Penh","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.88), operator_casino (0.92), investor_analyst (0.94), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"NagaCorp Financial Impact?","query":"What are the potential financial implications for NagaCorp's GGR and NGR if the Cambodian government mandates the reinstatement of all dismissed workers or significantly increased severance packages?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent Set?","query":"What precedent does the direct appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen for intervention in a private sector labor dispute set for regulatory compliance and governance frameworks for other iGaming operators in Cambodia and the broader ASEAN region?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911,2336,21297],"class_list":["post-31012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-nagacorp","tag-nagaworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31052,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions\/31052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}