"Violation of labor rights at Myanmar SINYOUNG FASHION garment factory", 9 January 2024

[Workers at the]Myanmar SINYOUNG FASHION garment factory...[are] being forced to work overtime and not being paid full overtime wages, workers said.

[They produce for] International brand Sinsay...the company operates with around 500 workers...the workers say that day laborers and youth workers are being forced to be hired on a short-term basis and not being paid full wages.

"...There are young people in the day laborers who have not reached the age of [maturity]. They asked me to call them as soon as there was an order, and then fired them before 3 months," said a worker.

Workers say that day workers are being forced to work temporarily without [being appointed as]...and [are] often illegally dismissing...employees...

In the workplace, the workers are ask[ed] [to meet targets] that [are] higher than what they can sew....

The working hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and workers are forced to go to overtime hours at 12:00 [am. or [work] throughout the night without prior notice. Although they have to work overtime for more than 80 to 100 hours a month without the right to refuse, the worker said that overtime wages were cut without full payment.

The workers said that if they went to tell them that they had been cut without receiving full overtime wages, they were pressured and harassed.

".... Sometimes we have to [work in] the factory all night... We have to go back to work at dawn. [a] wrap[ped] his body in a piece of linen that is no longer used, [and] the manager fire[d] him because he stole the linen. His picture is also posted in a public place," said a worker...

[Translation via Google Translate]