A/HRC/45/51/Add.1 c) suspending the payment of seniority indemnity for workers until 2021; d) advising landlords not to terminate lease agreement or expel tenants due to the late payment; e) exempting Property Stamp Tax from the purchase of houses worth below 70,000 USD to maintain the construction sector. 96. Noticeably, the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia has so far spent approximately USD8 million as the financial support to 184,470 suspended workers. And as of 26 July 2020, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has also conducted softskill training to 41,316 suspended workers. Paragraph 66 and 93(e) 97. The Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia took note of the comments from the Special Rapporteur on the amendment of the LTU. However, we would like to provide the background of this amendment as follows: 98. To ensure the freedom of association and social dialogue in accordance with the international standards and ILO’s recommendations, the Government amended 10 articles (3, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 54, 55 and 59) of the LTU. 99. The Government made this amendment for the purposes to (i) promote and broaden the freedom of association of domestic workers, (ii) facilitate the procedures and formalities of trade union registration and maintaining registration, (iii) facilitate the requirements to acquire the most representative status (MRS) and (iv) promote the rights and duties of minority worker unions. 100. On 25 April 2019, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) organized a national tripartite-plus consultative workshop on the Draft Amendment to the LTU under the technical support from the ILO, in which 166 federation unions, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity’s representatives (ACILS), the Arbitration Council Foundation’s representatives (ACF), 30 employers’ representatives, 15 relevant ministries’ representatives were invited and 178 attended. MLVT presented 10 amendments to the LTU to reflect the principles laid out in the ILO conventions 87 and 981. The MLVT has taken note of the concerns and certain inputs from relevant parties to review and revise the draft. 101. On 31 May 2019, the MLVT received the written comments from trade unions on the 10 proposed amended articles with additional requests to revise 5 more articles2 and add a new article. The Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Associations (CAMFEBA) has provided their comments on the 10 proposed amended articles. 102. The MLVT seriously considered the comments/concerns to the first draft amendment of the LTU provided by the relevant stakeholders during and after the first tripartite-plus consultative workshop in April 2019. Therefore, the MLVT used those comments/concerns as the inputs for further revising this draft amendment before putting it for the second tripartite-plus consultative workshop on 02 August 2019 under the technical support from the ILO. Under this new draft amendment, the LTU was modified as the following: • Article 3 (new): Article 3 of the LTU was amended to make the scope of coverage of the LTU to be the same as that of the Labor Law. This amendment is made to realize the commitment of the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia to provide same rights and protection to domestic workers as other formal ones. • Article 17(new) : To address the concerns of some trade unions with regard to the submission of trade union financial report, Article 17 of the LTU was amended to require the trade unions to have their financial reports audited by an independent audit firm only when there is a request from its member(s) or donor(s). • Article 20(new) : The MLVT heard the concerns of stakeholders relating to the requirements for being trade union leaders as well as the persons responsible for the administration of trade unions in an enterprise/establishment. Taking those concerns into consideration, the amendment of this article was made to remove Point (c)- (make a self-declaration that they have an educational level, at least being able to 18