Myanmar: Garment workers forced to work 16 hours a day
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 23 Feb 2024
Standort: Myanmar
Unternehmen
Bestseller - Reported buyer , Inditex - Reported buyer , Dishang Kenny (Dishang Group) - Supplier , Zara (part of Inditex) - Reported buyer , ONLY (part of Bestseller) - Reported buyer , Kiabi - Buyer , Shimamura - Buyer , LPP Spółka Akcyjna - Reported buyer , Reserved (part of LPP Spółka Akcyjna) - Reported buyer , K-Way (part of BasicNet) - BuyerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 600
Arbeiter: ( 600 - Location unknown , Kleidung & Textilien , Gender not reported )Themen
Mandatory overtime , Excessive production targets , Denial of permanent contracts , Dismissal , Wage TheftAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von BHRRC
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Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Dishang Kenny (Dishang Group) allegedly supplies or has supplied to BESTSELLER, Inditex, K-Way, LPP, Shimamura and KIABI; LPP and KIABI provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. LPP stated it does not source from the factory. K-Way and Shimamura did not respond. BESTSELLER and Inditex previously informed us it does not source from the factory.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
"Dishang Kenny Garment factory workers have to work 16 hours a day", 23 February 2024
...The workers said that at the Dishang Kenny Garment factory on King Mahamin Khok Road, they were working 16 hours a day.
The Dishang Kenny Garment Factory is one of the Dishang Group's factories, and the workers said that they started working at 7:30 in the morning but worked until 11:00 at night. The factory...has over 600 workers. SEASON REASON by Lin&Red, RESERVED [and] CLOSHI labels are being sewn.
"...I was forced to go down from 4pm to 11pm. After going down until 11:00 p.m., the workers were forced to sleep inside the factory. In the morning, I had to go to work at 7:30 as usual, In the evening, they had to go down again until 11:00 p.m.," the workers said.
He said that he had to work until 5pm on Saturdays and had to work overtime on weekends...the workers said that if they said they could not work overtime, the factory officials fired them...
.The workers said that the daily wage (20,000 kyats) and the professional fee are being cut.
...only the workers who are comfortable with the super[visors] receive the set professional fee. The workers said that...day laborers with almost 3 months to 2 years of experience were not appointed as confirmed employees.
Requesting a [target] that workers cannot sew, If you don't [meet the target] you will be slandered...n addition to being yelled at, workers at the Dishang Kenny factory said they had to work overtime without pay to meet the [target].
...the news of the military...pulling and the fear that the pedestrians are not safe everywhere is happening among the workers, he said.
[Translation via Google Translate]