“Nearly 2,000 workers at Kyo Saint Garment Factory face hardship due to non-payment of factory closure”, 21 February 2022

Yangon Division, due to lack of full compensation for factory closure…[n]early 2,000 workers at the [Jiu Sheng] Garment Factory…are facing hardships.

Workers say the [Jiu Sheng] plant was temporarily shut down from November 2021 until the end of January this year due to low orders.

"We were given only 40,000 kyat in allowances…before the factory closed…" a factory worker told MLN.

According to the terms of the employer-employee contract, which was signed at the time of employment, the compensation was 140,000 kyats a month…

Workers…have been asked to increase their working hours, but they have not been able to get the wages and benefits they deserve. Workers say they are worried that the factory will close due to the lack of compensation and often no orders.

"We had to sign it because we were worried about losing our jobs, but we want them to pay us in full as stated in the contract," said one of the factory workers, who did not receive full compensation during the factory closure.

[Jiu Sheng] is a Chinese-owned factory that mainly produces H&M brand woollen garments and distributes them to Europe.

[Translation via Google Translate]