“I Came Here with So Many Dreams”: Labor Rights Abuses & the Need for Change in Mauritius’ Apparel Factories
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
G-Star Raw - Buyer , Kontoor Brands - Buyer , Western Glove Works - Buyer , ASOS - Buyer , Centric Brands - Buyer , Foschini - Buyer , DDI - Employer , Diesel - Buyer , Giorgio Armani - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Manufatura: geral , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Liberdade de Associação , Taxas de Recrutamento , Intimidação e Ameaças , Mobilidade restrita , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Acesso à Informação , Direito à Alimentação , Saúde e Segurança Ocupacional , Exposição ao calor , Acesso a medicamentos , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Saúde MentalResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
J. Barbour and Sons Ltd. - Buyer , REAL Garments - Employer , Giorgio Armani - Buyer , Diesel - Buyer , PVH (Phillips-Van Heusen) - Buyer , Foxcroft - Buyer , Rodd & Gunn - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Manufatura: geral , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Intimidação e Ameaças , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Salário abaixo da linha da pobreza , Taxas de Recrutamento , Work & ConditionsResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
Firemount - Employer , Rodd & Gunn - Buyer , Boardriders - Buyer , Boden - Buyer , Foschini - Buyer , Kontoor Brands - Buyer , WE Fashion - Buyer , John Lewis (part of John Lewis Partnership) - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Manufatura: geral , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Direito à Alimentação , Taxas de Recrutamento , Condições de vida precárias/inadequadas , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Intimidação e Ameaças , Personal Health , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Saúde e Segurança Ocupacional , Exposição ao calorResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Dez 2023
Localização: Maurícias
Empresas
Foschini - Buyer , PVH (Phillips-Van Heusen) - Buyer , Rodd & Gunn - Buyer , Aquarelle Clothing - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Roupa e Material Têxtil , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status ) , Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Índia - Setor desconhecido , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status ) , Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Madagáscar - Setor desconhecido , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status )Temas
Taxas de RecrutamentoResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Transparentem
Link externo para resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: The suppliers provided policies in response to Transparentem's request to comment on the investigation's findings. All four denied workers had paid any recruitment fees. Management at DDI, Firemount and R.EA.L disputed most of the findings, excepting som on living and working conditions. PVH, Barbour and Second Clothing had committed to pay funds to repay migrant workers for recruitment fees and related costs at R.E.A.L; the Guardian calculated this at £400k total.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
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Workers [in Mauritius] told of feeling disillusionment and despair when, after paying exploitative recruitment fees they arrived in Mauritius to find that their wages were far less than their agents had told them. They described living and working conditions that no worker should endure, such as overcrowded dorms and insect infestations. Syed* (a pseudonym), a migrant worker at Firemount, reported going hungry and becoming physically weak due to the quality of food, saying, “The food is so bad, I would never have come. I would rather starve in Bangladesh.”
Some workers also reported facing intimidation and threats of punishment for speaking about their experiences—including the threat of deportation.
Transparentem’s investigation, completed in 2023, and company responses to its findings bring three stark realities to light (complete findings are in the full report):
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