Myanmar: Garment workers pressured to sign agreement to work continuously for 20 days to substitute holiday leave
Résumé
Date indiquée: 16 Mar 2024
Lieu: Birmanie
Entreprises
Tong Ying HK (Garment) - Supplier , Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) - BuyerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 5000
Travailleurs: ( 5000 - Lieu inconnu , Vêtements et textile , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Heures supplémentaires obligatoires , Refus de congé , Intimidation et menacesRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par BHRRC
Affaire contenant la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: Tong Ying HK (Garment) allegedly supplies to H&M; H&M provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre.
Type de source: News outlet
"H&M brand manufacturing TongYing factory forcing the workers to work 20 days continuously by calling substitute day for Thingyan holidays", 16 March 2024
Workers from TongYing garment factory...said that the factory force[d] them to work [in] substitute for the Thingyan holidays on Sunday by pressurizing them to sign an agreement...which makes them...work 20 days continuously without [a day] off...
They refuse to sign the agreement but the all super[visors] force them in various ways. The...super[visor] lied [and said] that every one ha[d] signed except them and force[d] them...
The workers said that they told the factory that they would work half day on Saturday without taking overtime wages instead of working on Sunday but the factory doesn’t accept.
...TONG YING HK (garment) factory is manufacturing H&M brand apparels with more than 5,000 workforce for several years.
[Translation via Myanmar Labour News]