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WRC Delivers Back Pay to Collegiate Apparel Workers in Bangladesh
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Wage Theft
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Manodeep Guha and Ben Hensler Date: March 20, 2025 Re: WRC Delivers Back Pay to Collegiate Apparel Workers in Bangladesh Workers Receive Full Remedy for Unpaid Compensation This month more than 700 workers formerly employed by the Base Textiles Ltd factory in Bangladesh, which had produced collegiate apparel…
Base Textiles
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Wage Theft
Base Textiles ceased operations without paying employees $325,000 in legally required wages, severance, and other benefits. The WRC’s investigation found that factory management stopped paying workers their wages on time and then unlawfully pressured workers to resign, so it could avoid paying them legally mandated severance after the factory closed. After the WRC communicated our…
Style Avenue S.A.
Country: El Salvador
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Overtime Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination
Style Avenue was found to have multiple and repeated labor rights violations, including forced overtime, illegal terminations, verbal abuse by management, failure to respect freedom of association, locking workers in the factory, excessive heat, and unsanitary conditions.
Final Back Pay Distribution at Style Avenue
Country: El Salvador
Issues: Wage Theft
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Scott Nova, Tara Mathur, Ben Hensler Date: March 18, 2025 Re: Final Back Pay Distribution at Style Avenue We are pleased to report that the final installment of funds provided by Outerstuff has been delivered to the employees of Style Avenue in El Salvador. On average, workers have…
Stretchline Central America
Country: Honduras
Issues: Wage Theft
In 2024, Stretchline Central America, located in Honduras, announced its upcoming closure and informed its workers that they would not receive full payment of their severance and other terminal benefits. The WRC engaged the factory’s owners, pressing them to honor their legal obligations, and, in response, the company reversed course and agreed to pay the…
Specialized says it donated $44,000 to unpaid factory workers. Did it?
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Issues: Wage Theft
FLA Report on Hong Seng (Nike)
Country: Thailand
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
December 17, 2024 Dear Colleagues, The Fair Labor Association (FLA) has issued a report on Hong Seng, the collegiate supplier factory in Thailand that forced workers to give up mandatory leave pay in clear violation of university standards. Nike has insisted that these workers gave up their pay voluntarily and has refused to ask the factory…
South China Headwear (Shenzhen) Co. Limited
Country: China
Issues: Health & Safety Violations, Overtime Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft
In 2024, the WRC conducted its investigation of the factory after being informed by the licensee, Vantage Apparel, that an audit conducted under the Sedex 4 program by the auditing company, LRQA, found that South China Headwear had remedied the violations the WRC had previously identified, including the factory’s previous failure to provide workers a…
Should Lucky Brand Be on the Hook for Severance at Subcontracted Factory?
Country: Guatemala
Issues: Wage Theft
WRC Engagement with US Workwear Company Leads to Full Compensation for Haitian Workers
Country: Haiti
Issues: Wage Theft
When the garment factory Haiti Premier Apparel closed in April 2023, roughly 100 of its former workers in that country did not receive their legally required severance. However, thanks to a contribution from the US workwear company Careismatic Brands, which is a former buyer from the factory, the workers will now be paid in full….