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Horizon Manufacturing
Published: February 27, 2024
The Horizon Manufacturing garment factory, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, shut down operations in April 2022. At the time of the closure, the factory owner failed to pay the factory’s 532 employees more than $300,000 they were owed in terminal benefits as required by Haitian law. The violations by factory owners were remedied when factory buyers…
Premium Apparel
Published: January 24, 2024
In November 2023, Premium Apparel closed operations and failed to pay its workers severance and other terminal benefits. The primary buyer, Gildan (which also sourced blanks for the university licensee New Agenda), promptly committed to make full payment of the workers’ severance. Gildan’s contribution of approximately $700,000 was distributed to workers in January 2024.
Gildan Pays $700,000 to Cover Collegiate Supplier’s Arrears to Workers
Published: January 24, 2024
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Scott Nova Date: January 24, 2024 Re: Gildan Pays $700,000 to Cover Collegiate Supplier’s Arrears to Workers I am writing to report on a new case, involving unpaid severance at a factory in Haiti that closed recently, after having made university logo goods for many years. Premium Apparel…
New Report: Remediation of Sexual Harassment and Retaliation at Mazava Hispaniola (Haiti)
Published: November 16, 2023
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Tara Mathur and Ben Hensler Date: November 16, 2023 Re: New Report: Remediation of Sexual Harassment and Retaliation at Mazava Hispaniola (Haiti) Please find here a new report detailing the investigation and remediation by the WRC of sexual harassment of women workers—as well as the retaliatory firing of…
Mazava Hispaniola
Published: November 16, 2023
An investigation by the WRC found violations of sexual harassment against at least two women workers, and subsequent retaliation against these workers for resisting the abuse at Mazava Hispaniola, a Haitian garment factory owned by the Hong Kong-based Winds Group. The WRC’s investigation found that a factory manager committed gender-based violence and harassment by sexually…
Palm Apparel
Published: July 14, 2023
In 2020–2021, the WRC investigated the chronic failure of Haitian garment factories to make legally required contributions to the country’s public healthcare and pension systems. This failure contributed to the avoidable deaths of two workers that occurred after each of them was unable to access lifesaving medical treatment. The WRC’s investigation found that the factories…
WRC Secures Rehiring and a Year of Back Pay for 83 Illegally Fired Workers in Haiti
Published: July 14, 2023
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Tara Mathur and Ben Hensler Date: July 14, 2023 Re: WRC Secures Rehiring and a Year of Back Pay for 83 Illegally Fired Workers in Haiti The WRC has secured one year’s back pay and rehiring for 83 workers who were illegally fired, then blacklisted, by two garment…
Centri Group
Published: July 14, 2023
In 2022, the WRC conducted an investigation and found that the Haitian factory, Centri Group, committed violations of freedom of association by firing 64 of its employees. The factory retaliated against this group of workers, which it held responsible for an employee-wide work stoppage to protest unpaid overtime. The WRC found that Centri Group’s dismissal…
One Year Back Pay, Rehiring for Haitian Workers Fired over Wage Protest
Published: July 14, 2023
After nearly a year of investigation and engagement by the WRC, Centri Group, a garment factory in Haiti that supplies the Canadian apparel company, Gildan Activewear, has committed to remedy violations of its workers’ fundamental right to freedom of association. As previously reported, a WRC investigation had found that, in 2022, Centri Group violated its…
WRC Secures Five Months’ Wages in Unpaid Severance for Workers of Former Workwear Factory in Haiti
Published: February 27, 2024
This past holiday season, former workers of Horizon Manufacturing, a garment factory in Haiti that made work uniforms for export to the United States, received more than $300,000 to correct nonpayment of severance they had been owed by the facility owner, since the factory closed in April 2022. Top workwear companies, Edwards Garment and Aramark…