"Extorting wages from day laborers", 9 May 2024

Workers from HUITAI MANUFACTURING(MYANMAR) Co.,ltd garment factory said that there are more than 300 workers in the factory and more than 50 of them are day laborers but not hired as permanent stuffs even if their length of service exceeds 3 months and they are bein...humiliated in the workplace by verbally abused and asking [for] excessive [targets].

The factory is...manufacturing SInsay brand apparels.

...Day laborers are being exploited as they don’t [receive] attendance bonus, expert fees and holiday [pay]...only daily wages,” said a worker.

The factory dismiss[es] the day laborers who refuse to work overtime immediately...

“The supervisors verbally abuse us every day if we don’t finish the output demands...” said a worker.

There is no workplace coordination committee to address the workplace disputes and workers are being verbally suppressed and humiliated.

They are not entitled to social security, casual and medical leaves and cut 4,800 kyats daily wages and 10,000 kyats attendance bonus and daily allowance 1,000 kyats for a single day of absent...workers are working without drinking water in the hot weather...

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