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9 Mar 2015

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Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights

International Label Children’s Clothing Made Under Slave-like Conditions in Bangladesh

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Jeans Plus sweatshop workers make…stretch trousers for Inditex...and clothing for 6 to 9-month old infants...for... LC Waikiki...Jeans Plus production manager...routinely slaps and punches young women workers for failing to meet their excessive production goals... The workers, 80 percent of whom are young women, are forced to toil 94 to 101 hours each week...Pregnant women are routinely fired and thrown out of the factory without any of their legally required maternity benefits...A senior sewing operator earns just 41 cents (U.S.) per hour...Factory management robs the workers of their “earned leave” (vacation) money.