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Canteran Apparel
Published: March 24, 2014
The WRC report “Crackdown in Cambodia,” dated March 24, 2014, detailed deadly attacks by Cambodian security forces on protesting Cambodian garment workers.
Yakjin Garment
Published: March 24, 2014
The WRC report “Crackdown in Cambodia,” dated March 24, 2014, detailed deadly attacks by Cambodian security forces on protesting Cambodian garment workers.
Zongtex Garment Manufacturing
Published: March 13, 2014
Since initiating an investigation in response to worker complaints, the WRC has documented violations at both Zongtex’s main factory in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a second Zongtex-owned factory in Pochentong, Cambodia that appears to operate as a “hidden,” unregistered subcontractor to the main facility. Among other violations of university codes of conduct,…
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.