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Glory Industries Ltd.
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Gladpeer Garments Factory Ltd.
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Garden City Fashions
Country: India
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Fountain Garments Manufacturing Ltd.
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Dress Master Apparel Private Ltd.
Country: India
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
Dress Master Apparel Private Ltd., a Gap supplier in Bangalore, India, closed in May 2020, leaving 1,200 workers without $346,134 in legally owed severance. Dress Master was part of the Indian company Raymond Limited, which owns three brands and operates five other subsidiaries. Reduction of workforce began two months prior when workers report that management…
Eco Base Ltd.
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
Dignity Knitter Ltd. and Eco Base Ltd. are sister factories in Takhmao City in Kandal Province, Cambodia. They supplied Arcadia, Debenhams, John Lewis, Lidl, Mango, Marks & Spencer, Next, and Urban Outfitters, before closing in April 2020, firing more than 1,100 workers, and failing to pay them $2.2 million in legally mandated compensation. Workers at…
Dragon Sweater Ltd.
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
Dragon Sweater Ltd., a supplier to Lidl, New Yorker, and Woolworths, fired at least 500 workers—about half its workforce—in March 2020 and failed to pay them an estimated $133,200 in severance. In all, workers received barely a fifth of what they were legally owed. Since the closure, Dragon Group, which owned the factory, has continuously…
Dignity Knitter Ltd.
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
Dignity Knitter Ltd. and Eco Base Ltd. are sister factories in Takhmao City in Kandal Province, Cambodia. They supplied Arcadia, Debenhams, John Lewis, Lidl, Mango, Marks & Spencer, Next, and Urban Outfitters, before closing in April 2020, firing more than 1,100 workers, and failing to pay them $2.2 million in legally mandated compensation. Workers at…
Diganta Sweaters Ltd.
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Crystal Martin
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…