Palm Apparel

2025
In 2025, Palm Apparel Group permanently shuttered operations at both Palm Apparel and SISA and failed to pay the factories’ employees the terminal benefits to which they were entitled under the law. The WRC engaged with the Gildan, which agreed to pay the 2,500 employees at the two factories a total of $2.5 million in terminal compensation.

2023
Following the 2021 closure of one of the two Palm Apparel buildings, the WRC found that the factory committed violations of freedom of association when it refused to offer union leaders positions at the second facility, which remained open. After the WRC engaged with the licensees and Gildan, Palm Apparel agreed to pay significant back wages to 19 affected union leaders and to make offers of priority rehiring for these workers.

2021
The WRC investigated the chronic failure of Palm Apparel and Sewing International (SISA), both owned by Palm Apparel Group, to make regular contributions to the country’s public healthcare and pension systems. This led to the avoidable deaths of two workers that occurred after each of these workers was unable to access lifesaving medical treatment. The WRC found that Palm Apparel Group was responsible to provide compensation to the families of the deceased workers. Through engagement with Gildan Activewear, which supplied products from both factories to university licensees, Palm Apparel Group agreed to provide significant financial compensation to the families of the deceased workers.

Read More:

• The Failure of Factories in Haiti to Pay Legally Required Health Benefits, the Related Deaths of Two Workers at Facilities Making Collegiate Apparel, and the Status of Remedial Action – June 17, 2021
• Worker Rights Consortium Findings, Recommendations, and Company Response Palm Apparel (Haiti) – July 14, 2023
• $2.5 Million in Back Pay for Collegiate Apparel Workers in Haiti – October 28, 2025
• $2.5 Milyon peman revokasyon pou Travayè ki pwodwi Rad pou Inivèsite nan peyi Ayiti – 28 Oktòb, 2025