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Garment workers’ wages decrease in decade
Published: August 1, 2013
E Garment
Published: April 2, 2013
The WRC found serious and ongoing violations by E Garment’s management of its workers’ associational rights, that the factory, VF and E Garment’s other buyers — despite extensive attempts at engagement by the WRC — have repeatedly failed to remedy.
New report slams Cambodia Worker initiative
Published: March 1, 2013
Monitoring in the Dark: An evaluation of the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia monitoring and reporting program
Published: February 14, 2013
For over a decade, the Cambodian apparel manufacturing industry has sought competitive advantage in the international marketplace by seeking to obtain and preserve a reputation for relatively greater respect for labor rights than other garment-exporting countries in the region. An examination of the Cambodian garment industry’s recent track record with respect to labor rights, however, raises serious doubts about whether this reputation is warranted.
June Textile Company (Gimmill Industrial, Pte Ltd.)
Published: July 25, 2011
On July 24, 2011, June Textile Company, a factory in Cambodia that formerly produced collegiate apparel for Vantage Custom Classics, and non-college garments for Russell Athletic, Carter’s (maker of OshKosh brand apparel) and H&M, agreed to pay legally-owed severance to 4,000 employees who lost their jobs when the plant was destroyed by a fire on March 30, 2011.
Tearing Apart at the Seams: How Widespread Use of Fixed-Duration Contracts Threatens Cambodian Workers and the Cambodian Garment Industry
Published: April 20, 2011
Over the past several years, the Cambodian garment industry has undergone a radical transformation in the composition of its labor force. During the mid-1990s, when the Cambodian garment industry experienced its initial boom, the majority of workers were hired on a permanent basis under what Cambodian law calls “undetermined-duration contracts” (“UDCs”). Now, factories hire new workers almost exclusively under short-term, temporary contracts, referred to in Cambodia as “fixed-duration contracts” (“FDCs”), and many workers originally hired under UDCs have faced pressure to convert their permanent contracts to FDCs.
Darong Printing and Embroidery
Published: September 18, 2009
The WRC has achieved substantial remediation of significant occupational health and safety hazards and other violations of university codes of conduct at the Darong Printing and Embroidery factory in Cambodia.
New Wide Garment Cambodia
Published: March 16, 2008
The WRC’s assessment of New Wide Garment, initiated in October of 2007, identified a number of serious labor rights violations in the areas of freedom of association, women’s rights, wages and benefits, and occupational health and safety. Significant progress has been achieved.
PCCS Garment
Published: January 15, 2008
The WRC initiated the assessment of PCCS Garment in response to worker complaints alleging violations in the area of occupational health and safety, as well as the excessive use of short-term labor contracts.
Beauty Silk Screening
Published: January 15, 2008
The WRC initiated the assessment of PCCS Garment in response to worker complaints alleging violations in the area of occupational health and safety, as well as the excessive use of short-term labor contracts.