Why it matters: As discussed above regarding the Law on Minimum Wage, %'",, workers outside the %''Labour Code do not have the right to form and be members of trade unions under the %'"+ Trade Union Law. Issue 3.2: Burdensome requirements for registration of a union and union leadership What it is: Following amendments in December %'"#, Article$"% of the %'"+ Trade Union Law, registration of a union entails burdensome registration requirements including that they are ", years old (or have been emancipated under the Civil Code) and that they make a declaration of a specific residential address. Article (, requires a shop leader or worker representative to have worked in the establishment for three months and to have attained an educational level sufficient to be able to read and write Khmer; in addition, non-citizens must also have the right to legally reside in Cambodia to be a worker representative. Why it is new: Equivalent provisions regarding shop stewards were included under Article %,+ of the Labour Law. The age limit was higher (%*) for union leaders under the original Article %+# of the Labour Law, as well as requirements for Khmer literacy, never having been convicted of a crime and having worked in the job for at least one year. Union registration under Article %+, of the Labour Law required submission of statutes and a list of names of those responsible for management and administration. Why it matters: Registration requirements are likely to be used to limit workers’ rights to establish organisations and may interfere with workers’ right “to elect their representatives in full freedom” under Article ($of the ILO C',- - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, "#), (No. ,-). Issue 3.3: Union rules must include majority vote requirement for strike What it is: Article "( of the %'"+$Trade Union Law requires unions to include in their statutes a rule requiring an absolute majority of members (*"%) to vote in order to authorise a strike, modification of its statute or general assembly of the worker’s union. 15