According to International Labour Organisation new report, youth employment rate in Cambodia is expected to rise to 14.8 percent by the end of this year. Young people working in low-paid sectors of Cambodian industry were finding it hard to find a new job after losing their jobs of the global financial crisis.

“It is difficult for them to find a new work in a low-income country in the formal sector such as garment worker in Cambodia ,” the report reads.

Tun Sophorn, national coordinator at International Labour Organisation, said that Cambodia unemployment rate may be higher than what they have expected in report. “We need to updated data on national youth unemployment,” he said. “The unemployment rate is rising because some farmers work only three months and they are considered to be unemployment for the rest of the year,” he added.

Tun Sophorn continue that because of the world economic crisis last year, many employees lose their jobs and more youths get problem with entering market.

“Hundreds of young people are entering the labour force everyday. They are trying to have excellent and stability jobs, but they still face challenges.”

The Labour Ministry report claimed that Cambodia had become scarcely concentrated in the agricultural, garment, construction and tourism sectors

“ Cambodia youths go to work abroad about 200,000 to 300,000 every year because of lack of proper training and opportunities in Cambodia ,” Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said.

He also appeals to government to promote proper training in order to develop the economic sector. “Foreign investment is the key to reduce unemployment rate in Cambodia , but gas [petrol] and electricity rates in Cambodia are the highest in Asia that make our country lose a lot of investors because of government bureaucracy and corruption,” he said.

Officials from the Ministry of Labour could not be reached for comment yesterday. Nevertheless, not only Cambodia , but global unemployment among people aged 15-24 is expected to reach 13.1 percent by the end of the year. It stood at 13 percent at the end of 2009, when 81 million young people were out of work, a rise of 7.8 million since 2007 as a result of economic crisis.

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