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Target supplier workers win pay battle
Country: Guatemala
Issues: Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft
KOA Modas
Country: Guatemala
Issues: Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft
In 2024, the WRC investigated and achieved remediation for serious violations of worker rights at the Guatemalan garment factory, KOA Modas. The violations included nonpayment of back wages, nonpayment of social security, nonpayment of wages following the Covid-19 lockdown, illegal requirement of advance vacation, and violations of freedom of association. Following the WRC’s engagement with…
Broken threads: 5 things to know about troubled college clothing industry
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Forced Labor, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Living Wage, Wage Theft
Broken threads: College clothing made in factories rife with labor violations, poverty wages
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, LGBTQ, Living Wage, Safety Accords, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft, Workplace Health and Safety
Violet Apparel Co. Ltd.
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
The July 1, 2020, closure of Violet Apparel Co. Ltd. in Phnom Penh, Cambodia—a supplier of non-collegiate apparel to Nike and UK brand, Matalan—left 1,284 workers unemployed with less than one week’s notice. Violet Apparel was owned by textile and apparel conglomerate, Ramatex, which operates more than 20 production facilities around the world, including three…
Hulu Garment Co. 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 in early 2020 were the legally mandated…
Guatemalan Target Supplier’s Laid-Off Workers Still Waiting for Severance
Country: Guatemala
Issues: Covid-19, Wage Theft
Retailers, facing an inventory crisis, are cancelling orders again
Country: Global
Issues: Covid-19
Brilliant Alliance Thai Global Ltd.
Country: Thailand
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…
Successful Remediation of Wage and Other Labor Rights Violations at Target Supplier in Guatemala
Country: Guatemala
Issues: Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft
In 2024, the WRC investigated serious violations of worker rights at the Guatemalan garment factory, KOA Modas. Thanks to successful engagement with the factory’s primary buyer, Target, and its intermediary, SAE-A Trading, the WRC is pleased to report that the factory has committed to full remediation of all violations documented by the WRC. The WRC…