The Ministry of Labour and Vocational training has announced that starting next week, daily job forums will be scheduled across all 25 capital-provinces, as part of its ongoing efforts to provide information about employment opportunities to migrant workers who have returned from Thailand.
An August 13 ministry directive urged the owners and managers of factories and companies to participate in the forums, which will get underway from August 20.
Phnom Penh forums will be held at four locations: At the ministry headquarters, the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPIC), the National Technical Training Institute (NTTI) and the National Institute of Business (NIB).
Meanwhile, each province will host at least two forums — one at the branch office of the National Social Security Fund and one at a polytechnic institute or vocational training centre in the provincial capital.
The ministry also announced that from August 24, it will launch the third round of its commune/sangkat campaign to register job seekers and conduct recruitment interviews. The third round is expected to see forums held in from 80 to 100 communes per day.
The ministry has encouraged employers, factories and enterprise owners to advise their staff to use polite and appropriate language when explaining available job opportunities to workers.
The extra guidance is intended to extend the same warm welcome that the government, the ministry, provincial administrations, border authorities, youth volunteers of the Cambodian Red Cross and Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia have been providing to migrant workers upon their arrival back on Cambodian soil.
Enterprises, companies and factories can join the job forums or recruitment campaigns either in person or via Zoom. At the same time, job seekers can still register via the 1297 hotline or the QR Code.
The ministry further urged employers to provide careful guidance and orientation during the first three working days and to facilitate direct wage payments in cash or through other temporary methods for workers who do not yet have bank accounts.
In addition, employers are required to report their labour force needs to the ministry every two weeks via the Labour Sector Data Management System (LACMS) at https://lacms.mlvt.gov.kh, via the 1297 hotline, or through the provided QR Code.
The ministry encouraged all enterprise owners, company directors and factories to fully and effectively comply with these instructions.
In the second round of the ministry’s job forum campaign, held from August 2 to 11, a total of 305 job forums were organised, bringing more than 110,000 job opportunities to the public. Through these, 16,824 people were hired immediately.
The ministry reported that nationwide, in this 10-day period, more than 60,000 jobs were filled for returnees from Thailand through ministry agencies.
Since June 8, around 910,000 Cambodian migrant workers have returned from Thailand due to border disputes and discrimination that, in some cases, escalated into violence against them.
