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Fashion Could Feel Effects of COVID-19-Induced Labor Crisis Until 2023

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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…

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

Global rights groups for TRIPS waiver to protect RMG workers from Covid-19

Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19, Health & Safety Violations, Wage Theft

How Designers Can Support India’s Artisans and Factories Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

Country: India
Issues: Covid-19

Locked Down and Out of Work: Desperation Sets in among Garment Workers

Country: Cambodia
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft

Consumers Are Watching, But Is the Denim Industry Behaving Any Better?

Country: Bangladesh, Global, Lesotho
Issues: Covid-19, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Safety Accords, Wage Theft

Garment Workers Were ‘Robbed’ Of Millions In Benefits. Which Brands Are Stepping In?

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Issues: Covid-19

Cheap sweatpants and loungewear were a key comfort during the global pandemic. That we can switch up our wardrobes at so little cost to ourselves is thanks in no small part to the world’s garment workers, who despite being skilled at their jobs are chronically underpaid and—as the pandemic revealed—have few social protections, even though millions have lost work in the past year. Many garment-producing countries offer no unemployment insurance.