Monday, 05 December 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Photo by: Pha Lina
Recruits stand on balconies at a T&P training centre in Phnom Penh in March, before it was shuttered in October. Nineteen Cambodians worried they are about to be trafficked by a Thai company connected to disgraced labour firm T&P pleaded for help yesterday, saying their passports had been taken and salaries withheld.
Ton Sasmith, 27, said he and 29 others were sent to the recruitment agency IMPA in Thailand to work for shipping firm DHL by T&P on September 17, but after floods ravaged the company, forcing the company to end their contracts, they were left jobless and stranded.
“The IMPA director did not give us a salary or our passports, and they moved us from one place to another place without telling us exactly,” he said, adding he and another man were in a house that was being surrounded by security guards in Bangkok. “They forced us to sign to complete the contract with the company [IMPA], and if we don’t sign, they will send us to prison.”
Ton Sasmith, 27, said he and 29 others were sent to the recruitment agency IMPA in Thailand to work for shipping firm DHL by T&P on September 17, but after floods ravaged the company, forcing the company to end their contracts, they were left jobless and stranded.
“The IMPA director did not give us a salary or our passports, and they moved us from one place to another place without telling us exactly,” he said, adding he and another man were in a house that was being surrounded by security guards in Bangkok. “They forced us to sign to complete the contract with the company [IMPA], and if we don’t sign, they will send us to prison.”
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