“I Came Here with So Many Dreams”: Labor Rights Abuses & the Need for Change in Mauritius’ Apparel Factories
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
G-Star Raw - Buyer , ASOS - Buyer , Kontoor Brands - Buyer , DDI - Employer , Centric Brands - Buyer , Diesel - Buyer , Foschini - Buyer , Giorgio Armani - Buyer , Western Glove Works - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Manufatura: geral , Men )Temas
Taxas de Recrutamento , Intimidação e Ameaças , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Acesso à Informação , Direito à Alimentação , Occupational Health & Safety , Heat exposure , Acesso a medicamentos , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Saúde Mental , Restricted mobility , Liberdade de AssociaçãoResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
J. Barbour and Sons Ltd. - Buyer , Giorgio Armani - Buyer , REAL Garments - Employer , Diesel - Buyer , Foxcroft - Buyer , Rodd & Gunn - Buyer , PVH (Phillips-Van Heusen) - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Manufatura: geral , Men )Temas
Taxas de Recrutamento , Intimidação e Ameaças , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Poverty Wages , Work & ConditionsResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
Firemount - Employer , Rodd & Gunn - Buyer , Boardriders - Buyer , Boden - Buyer , Foschini - Buyer , WE Fashion - Buyer , Kontoor Brands - Buyer , John Lewis (part of John Lewis Partnership) - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Manufatura: geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Direito à Alimentação , Taxas de Recrutamento , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Intimidação e Ameaças , Personal Health , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Occupational Health & Safety , Heat exposureResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
Aquarelle Clothing - Employer , Foschini - Buyer , PVH (Phillips-Van Heusen) - Buyer , Rodd & Gunn - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Roupa e Material Têxtil , Gender not reported )Temas
Taxas de RecrutamentoResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
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Workers [in Mauritius] told of feeling disillusionment and despair when, after paying exploitative recruitment fees they arrived in Mauritius to find that their wages were far less than their agents had told them. They described living and working conditions that no worker should endure, such as overcrowded dorms and insect infestations. Syed* (a pseudonym), a migrant worker at Firemount, reported going hungry and becoming physically weak due to the quality of food, saying, “The food is so bad, I would never have come. I would rather starve in Bangladesh.”
Some workers also reported facing intimidation and threats of punishment for speaking about their experiences—including the threat of deportation.
Transparentem’s investigation, completed in 2023, and company responses to its findings bring three stark realities to light (complete findings are in the full report):
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