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Research spotlights forced labour concerns
Country: Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Myanmar
Issues: Covid-19, Forced Labor
Risk of forced labour in clothing industry rises due to pandemic and industry response
Country: Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Myanmar
Issues: Covid-19, Forced Labor
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
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Issues: Covid-19
Garment Workers Face Mounting Forced Labor Risks
Country: Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Myanmar
Issues: Covid-19, Forced Labor
1000+ Interviews Reveal Destructive Brand Practices Contributed to Unpaid Earnings, Threats and Abuse, Skyrocketing Debt, and a Dangerous Lack of PPE New research by the University of Sheffield and the Worker Rights Consortium finds that declining income and working conditions for workers in garment supply chains amid the Covid-19 pandemic has increased workers’ vulnerability to…
Hanging by a thread
Country: Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Myanmar
Issues: Covid-19, Forced Labor
Fashion Could Feel Effects of COVID-19-Induced Labor Crisis Until 2023
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Issues: Covid-19
Weakening Legal Protections for Garment Workers in Asia
Country: Cambodia, India, Indonesia
Issues: Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Living Wage, Wage and hour violations, Workplace Health and Safety
May 27, 2021 Dear colleagues, Over the past year, the WRC has tracked a disturbing trend: as their populations faced the ravages of Covid, the governments of several garment-producing countries in Asia acted to strip away and undermine worker protections, a move often framed as a way to attract new investment. In Indonesia and India,…
Amazon workers are rising up around the world to say: enough
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Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
PVH pays for nutrition services in Bangladesh
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19
$1.3 Million Wage Theft from Salvadoran Workers Who Made Disney/ABC-licensed Grey’s Anatomy Scrubs for Barco Uniforms
Country: El Salvador
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
One year after the factory closed, workers are still owed an estimated $1.3 million The Industrias Florenzi factory in San Salvador, El Salvador, dismissed its 210 workers in the first half of 2020, finally ceasing operations in July. One year later, however, workers still have not been paid the $1.3 million in terminal compensation which…