Employment & Labor Updates During the COVID-19 Crisis

Watch our latest video to gain a clearer view on restructuring options available for employers and human resources departments during the time of COVID-19 in Cambodia. Our expert Alex Larkin (DFDL Cambodia Corporate & Commercial Practice Senior Consultant), shares his insights, practical steps and considerations when implementing leave arrangements, salary reductions and shortened working hours...

Following our first video ‘Salary Arrangements & Restructuring in the Time of COVID-19’, another key concern of Human Resource departments during this time is to keep their workforces motivated and performing optimally in spite of unideal circumstances and uncertainty about the near future. Watch our latest video to form a clearer view on the options...

With the onslaught of COVID-19’s downstream impacts on the economy, it is not surprising that human resources departments throughout the Southeast region are urgently trying to re-calibrate and adjust their pay budgets in response. The first component of this process concerns their employees’ wages. Watch our latest video to gain a clearer view on the...

On 12 September 2020, the Department of Trade and Industry (“DTI”) and the Department of Labor and Employment (“DOLE”) issued Advisory No. 20-02, Series of 2020 (“Advisory No. 20-02”), which contained clarifications related to the DTI-DOLE Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2020-04-A. The latter was issued to provide supplemental guidelines on the prevention and control of...

Earlier this month, the DFDL Employment & Labour Team organized a well-attended webinar on Workforce Restructuring in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam. Our experts shared their insights with the audience on ways to minimize COVID-19 related labour challenges in compliance with local law as well as practical steps and considerations when implementing options...

The Department of Labor and Employment (“DOLE”) issued Labor Advisory Nos. 17 and 18 dated 16 May 2020 containing guidelines on employment preservation upon the resumption of business operations as well as guidelines on the cost of COVID-19 prevention and control measures, respectively. Read the analysis of DFDL’s collaborating firm in the Philippines, Ocampo &...

This publication is part of our series focusing on workforce management in consideration of the COVID-19 outbreak in Southeast Asian countries. In those jurisdictions where there has been a consistent decrease in the number of new infections, companies now contemplate asking their employees to return to the company’s premises to perform their duties. Indeed, in...

The COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (“IATF“) provided guidelines on the conduct of activities in areas covered by the Enhaned Community Quarantine (“ECQ“) and those areas under General Community Quarantine (“GCQ“). This alert summarizes the guidelines. This alert also summarizes regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and Employment’s...

Following the press release on the instructions of the Royal Government of Cambodia on further measures to help the private sector and employees severely affected by Covid-19 (Round 2 and 3) and Instruction 045/20 issued by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (“MLVT”) dated 17 April 2020, on the suspension of employment contracts and...

In accordance with the press release on instructions of the Royal Government of Cambodia on further measures to help the private sector and employees severely affected by Covid-19 (Round 3, 07 April 2020), the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (“MLVT”) issued Instruction No. 045/20, dated 17 April 2020, on suspension of employment contracts and...