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WRC Engagement with Target Secures Compensation for Seven Unlawfully Fired Employees, Restores Stolen Severance Rights for 400 Workers at Supplier JNB Global in Guatemala

Country: Guatemala
Issues: Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination

JNB Global, a garment factory in Guatemala that supplies Target Stores, has provided legally owed severance and back pay to workers whom the factory unlawfully fired in February 2021, and it has restored severance and seniority rights for the factory’s entire workforce of 400 employees, following a WRC investigation and subsequent engagement with Target for…

La intervención del WRC con Target asegura las indemnizaciones de siete trabajadoras(es) despedidas ilegalmente y restablece el derecho a la indemnización que les había sido arrebatado a las 400 trabajadoras(es) de JNB Global en Guatemala

Country: Guatemala
Issues: Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination

Después de una investigación realizada por el Consorcio de Derechos del Trabajador (WRC, por sus siglas en inglés) y del subsiguiente compromiso con Target para implementar acciones correctivas, JNB Global, una fábrica de ropa en Guatemala que abastece a las tiendas de Target, pagó las indemnizaciones por despido y los salarios caídos que legalmente se…

Vald’or

Country: Haiti
Issues: Wage Theft

Vald’or, a garment factory located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, fully closed operations in January 2022. The US-based company failed to pay the factory’s more than 1,100 workers the severance payments to which they were entitled under the law. Vald’or was also delinquent in other payments to workers, including health and pension payments, which it deducted from…

Haitian garment workers share $1m PVH payout

Country: Haiti
Issues: Wage Theft

$1 Million Restored to Workers in Haiti

Country: Haiti
Issues: Wage Theft

February 6, 2023 Dear Colleagues, I want to share a bit of good news. As the Guardian reported yesterday, the WRC secured a million dollars from PVH (owner of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein) to provide back pay to more than a thousand garment workers in Haiti. The workers’ factory closed suddenly last year without paying them…

Fashion Brands Are Profiting From the Erosion of Workers’ Rights in Myanmar | Opinion

Country: Myanmar
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Health & Safety Violations, Myanmar Coup, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft

Stay or Go? In Myanmar, Fashion Faces More Questions Than Answers.

Country: Myanmar
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Myanmar Coup, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft