The widespread existence of subcontracting facilities with limited labour rights enforcement in Cambodia poses threat to the progress made towards achieving decent work and social protection targets for female workers in the country’s garment sector, according to a recent policy brief by OXFAM.
This requires urgent investigation to clarify the nature and scale of the problems within the subcontracting segment and identify solutions for remedy that can improve the lives of workers, predominantly women, in the sector, it noted.
The right to decent work is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has provisions dealing not only with the right to work, but with the various aspects of decent work, including just and favourable conditions of work, protection against unemployment, equal pay, social protection and the right to form and join trade unions.
