"Workers are having a hard time due to excessive overtime", 16 May 2024

Workers from ETERNAL FASHION garment factory...said that they are having a hard time as the factory is calling [for] excessive overtime without a day off and cutting their benefits if they refuse to...

“The main workplace problem is we have to work 10 hours including 2 hours of overtime. The workers are selected and forced to work overtime from 6:40 pm to 12:00 am without their consent. We have to sleep at the factory on those days and go back to house with the ferry at 5:00 am and came back on time for the next day. They don’t give the technical expert fees, if we don’t do the overtime...,” the worker explained...

“We have to work 16 hours according to their orders...we can’t refuse but I am wondering who would feed us [as] our health [is] [a]ffected [by the] excessive workload.

It is said they are working overtime every day since the post Thingyan holiday and the cutting department doesn’t even have a day off and the other departments are also being selected to work overtime...

Any type of leave are cut by 10,000 kyats, and according to the system, the workers will almost never get any benefits except for the daily wages...

There is also drinking water impurity problems in the factory that workers wished to be solved...

The factory is...manufacturing [for] MCKINLEY brand apparels.

[Translation via Myanmar Labour News]