Myanmar: Garment workers fired after requesting clarification on employment status
الملخص
Date Reported: 5 يونيو 2024
الموقع: ميانمار
الشركات
Jeans Fritz - Buyer , Beaume - Buyer , Popular Garment/Beaume International Garment - Supplier , JD Sports Fashion - Reported buyer , Lidl - Former buyer , Regatta - Former buyer , Iturri - Buyerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 70
عمال: ( 70 - Location unknown , الملابس والمنسوجات , Gender not reported )القضايا
Dismissal , Excessive production targetsالرد
Response sought: Yes, by BHRRC
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: Popular Garment allegedly supplies or has supplied to to Lidl, Regatta, JD Sports, Beaume, Jeans Fritz and Iturri; Beaume provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. Jeans Fritz and Iturri did not respond. Regatta has previously stated it does not have current business with the factory in response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. JD Sports previously stated in 2022 that it had not proceeded with production at the factory after authorisation. Lidl has previously stated that it had stopped business with the factory from September 2021.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 5 يونيو 2024
الموقع: ميانمار
الشركات
Lidl - Former buyer , Popular Garment/Beaume International Garment - Supplier , JD Sports Fashion - Reported buyer , Beaume - Buyer , Jeans Fritz - Buyer , Regatta - Former buyer , Iturri - Buyerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 32
عمال: ( 32 - Location unknown , الملابس والمنسوجات , Gender not reported )القضايا
Dismissal , Wage Theftالرد
Response sought: Yes, by BHRRC
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: Popular Garment allegedly supplies or has supplied to to Lidl, Regatta, JD Sports, Beaume, Jeans Fritz and Iturri; Beaume provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. Jeans Fritz and Iturri did not respond. Regatta has previously stated it does not have current business with the factory in response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. JD Sports previously stated in 2022 that it had not proceeded with production at the factory after authorisation. Lidl has previously stated that it had stopped business with the factory from September 2021.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
"The length of service of the workers was not made clear, so I asked for a solution", 5 June 2024
...In 2021, the [Popular Garment was] factory reopened under the name of Beaume International Garment...
...under the name of the former factory, Popular Garment, there are only more than 70 workers left, and more than 400 workers were employed last month. 32 workers who...asked [for the workers from each factory] to be separated and to clarify their seniority were fired...
The worker said that now only 70 of the veteran workers are left...
When asked about the lost seniority...it is evident that the same factory has 2 owners, 2 factory names and two WCC groups, and there has been no change in the employment agreement and the name of the applicant for the opening of the workshop.
Last 2024 On May 20, more than 70 popular workers were temporarily suspended from work on the grounds that they could not [meet] order [targets]...
The factory is ]supplying] NORTHLAND [and] Multiblu...
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