A minimum of 600 employees at land-based NagaWorld have received lay-off messages. Although NagaCorp stated that the lay-offs were due to financial hardships from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hong-Kong listed parent firm has reported profits of US$102.3 million in net in 2020.
Chhun Sokha, Vice President of the NagaWorld Union, noted that more of the 500 of the laid-off workers were union members and that NagaWorld was being discriminatory towards them.
She raises the question of why the sum close to $10m was donated from the firm to help the Cambodian Government with its pandemic easing efforts but on the other hand laying off such a substantial number of its workforce.
“This gesture is just a fake, a hoax picture because the actions that the company has taken regarding the employees – mostly women, including, pregnant women and women who have given birth – also got the company's layoff notification."
The firm keeps maintaining that the reason behind the layoffs was due to the ongoing closure of venues.
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