["More than 200 workers at the S-M MYANMAR Garment factory are facing wage cuts", 8 April 2023

It is reported that more than two hundred workers of the S-M MYANMAR Garment CO,LTD factory opened in Shwe Samlwin Industrial Zone (4) in Hlaing Thayar Township have had their wages cut.

The S-M MYANMAR Garment factory is working with more than 200 workers. It is said that...there is no trade union.

The [workers are]... not being allowed to benefit from social welfare clinics; In addition...if the workers miss a day of work...they will be unlawfully locked out of their work...

[The factory] unfairly [asks for targets] that workers cannot meet... the employer told the workers who could not [meet the target] demanded not to come to work. Swearing from super[visors] [i]n addition to yelling [towards] the workers who could not provide the clothes requested by the employer [and] had to quit of their own accord.

There are about 20 day laborers in the workplace. However, the day laborers have been working for more than 3 months, but the employer has not approved the appointment of employees, so the workers [demand:] 1. To allow workers to enjoy the leave and working holidays they are entitled to. 2. To organize and arrange for a balance of heat and cold in the workplace. 3. [No] swearing [or shouting] from super[visors] 4. To request a [target] that workers can [meet] and not to force them to do so. 5. I have requested 5 [times for the factory] to approve the appointment of day laborers...

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