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TOS Dominicana

Country: Dominican Republic
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Overtime Violations, Wage Theft

The WRC found substantial, credible evidence that serious violations of domestic law and university codes of conduct have occurred at TOS Dominicana. These violations include the unlawful coercion of workers to sign new employment contracts and complaint waivers reducing workers’ employment rights and benefits, forced and unpaid overtime, failure to pay the legally mandated premium…

Max Embo

Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Overtime Violations, Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination

A WRC inquiry found serious violations of workers’ right to freedom of association at both Dada Dhaka and Max Embo.

Dada Dhaka

Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

A WRC inquiry found serious violations of workers’ right to freedom of association at both Dada Dhaka and Max Embo.

PT Mulia Knitting

Country: Indonesia
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

The WRC’s investigation of PT Mulia Knitting was triggered by a worker complaint alleging serious violations of worker rights in the area of freedom of association.

New Holland

Country: Nicaragua
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Wrongful Termination

At the time the WRC received the New Holland complaint, workers had recently organized a labor union to try address what they viewed as labor rights violations: the workers alleged verbal harassment of workers, forced overtime, and unclean restroom facilities, among other problems. The primary subject of the complaint was that the company had allegedly tried to eliminate the worker organization from the factory by illegally firing its founding leaders.

New Wide Garment Cambodia

Country: Cambodia
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Precarious Work, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination

The WRC’s assessment of New Wide Garment, initiated in October of 2007, identified a number of serious labor rights violations in the areas of freedom of association, women’s rights, wages and benefits, and occupational health and safety. Significant progress has been achieved.

Beauty Silk Screening

Country: Cambodia
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Health & Safety Violations, Precarious Work, Statutory Benefit Violations

The WRC initiated the assessment of PCCS Garment in response to worker complaints alleging violations in the area of occupational health and safety, as well as the excessive use of short-term labor contracts.

Chong Won Fashion, Inc. (C. Woo Inc.)

Country: Philippines
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Overtime Violations, Precarious Work, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination

In response to a worker complaint, the WRC launched an investigation into alleged labor rights violations at Chong Won in late October, 2006. The investigation found serious and ongoing labor rights violations at Chong Won, including minimum wage violations, forced overtime, violations of workers’ right to unionize and bargain collectively, and, of particular concern, collusion by factory management with government agents in violence against workers engaged in a lawful and peaceful strike.

Rising Sun Kenya EPZ

Country: Kenya
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Precarious Work, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft

The WRC’s investigation of Rising Sun documented a number of serious code of conduct violations including, of greatest concern, the mass firing of 1,270 workers in early June 2006 in response to protests by workers regarding working conditions at the factory.

Hermosa and Chi Fung

Country: El Salvador
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft

Hermosa Manufacturing closed abruptly in May 2005 without paying workers substantial amounts of legally mandated compensation. In addition, workers who engaged in efforts to protest Hermosa’s practices and secure their compensation were blacklisted by other apparel factories in the region; the WRC documented such blacklisting by a factory known as Chi Fung, another supplier of university logo goods in Apopa, El Salvador.