Myanmar: Garment workers at Textile Palace forced to work overtime and denied leave to meet increasing targets
Résumé
Date indiquée: 7 Déc 2021
Lieu: Birmanie
Entreprises
Textile Palace - Supplier , OVS SpA - Former buyer , Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) - Buyer , Kiabi - BuyerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 2500
Travailleurs: ( 2500 - Lieu inconnu , Vêtements et textile , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Mandatory overtime , Excessive production targets , Denial of leave , DismissalRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par BHRRC
Affaire contenant la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: Textile Palace allegedly supplies to H&M, KIABI and OVS S.p.A; H&M, KIABI and OVS S.p.A provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. OVS S.p.A stated the factory was a subcontracted factory that had been used Jul-Aug 2020.
Type de source: Social Media
...Textile Palace garment factory from Mhawbi township, producing for H&M is forcing workers to [complete] higher target[s] which [are] not possible to meet and forced overtime. Leave...[is] not allowed and some workers were dismissed [for] taking leave...Workers have to sign a warning letter if they do not meet the target.
Workers are asked to sign on the warning letter if they are taking leave...
The factory can dismiss workers after...the warning letter [is signed twice]...