Myanmar: Garment workers report rights violations incl. mandatory overtime & wage cuts
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 24 Jan 2024
Standort: Myanmar
Unternehmen
Voile Bleue - Buyer , Best Choice Garment - SupplierBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 500
Arbeiter: ( 500 - Location unknown , Kleidung & Textilien , Gender not reported )Themen
Occupational Health & Safety , Verweigerung von Vereinigungsfreiheit (siehe: Arbeit) , Mandatory overtimeAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von BHRRC
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Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Best Choice Garment allegedly supplies to Voile Bleue; Voile Bleue did not provide a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
"At Best Choice Myanmar Garment Factory, overtime demand is being forced and overtime wages are being cut", 24 January 2024
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The workers said that...there is a trade union in the workplace, and the WCC is only made up of people selected by the employer, and there is no way to solve the difficulties in the workplace.
As a violation, the workers are being forcibly asked for [high] cloth [targets]...and if the standard is not met, the worker is forced to work overtime.
"...Even on Sundays, they have to work overtime. They don't pay full overtime pay...If they call OT on Sunday, they don't pay [for workers' transport]...I have to go according to my own plan. I don't get overtime pay. Besides, I have to pay about 2,000 in travel expenses from my own pocket. In the factory, I have to drink only boiling water...I often get diarrhea," said the worker...
As for the demands of the workers [they] call for overtime only with the consent of the workers, to arrange for [workers' transport], to pay the overtime fee in full, to allow the selection of...the workplace coordination committee according to the consent of the workers, to arrange clean drinking water in the workplace, he said...
[Translation via Google Translate]