Myanmar: Garment workers face verbal abuse if excessive production targets are not met
Resumo
Data informada: 9 Fev 2024
Localização: Myanmar
Empresas
Next - Former buyer , Handa (Yangon) Myanmar - Supplier , United Athle - Buyer , Honeys Holdings - Former buyer , Kiabi - Former buyer , Mizuno - Buyer , Active Brands - Reported buyer , Lidl - Former buyer , Burtle - Buyer , New Wave Group - Buyer , Clique (part of New Wave Group) - Buyer , Craft (part of New Wave Group) - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 2500
Trabalhadores: ( 2500 - Localização desconhecida , Roupa e Material Têxtil , Gender not reported )Temas
Harassment (other than sexual) , Discriminação de gênero , Espancamento e Violência , Excessive production targets , Vigilância , DismissalResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por BHRRC
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: Handa (Yangon) allegedly supplies to or has supplied to Lidl, Mizuno, Active Brands, KIABI, New Wave Group, Honeys, Burtle, United Athle and Next; Lidl, Active Brands, New Wave Group, Honeys, United Athle and KIABI provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. Active Brands stated it sources from another Handa Factory (number 1). Honeys stated it has not done business with the factory since May 2020. KIABI said its last orders at the factory were in October 2023. LIDL said it stopped sourcing from the factory several years ago. Mizuno and Burtle did not respond. Next has previously stated it had ceased operations with the factory in September 2022.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
"Handa Yangon garment factory requests too much fabric standard; Photographing the worker drinking water", 9 February 2024
Handa Yangon Garment...is operating with more than 2,500 workers.
Joma/CINEMA CLUB...CRAFT/KIABI/YONEX...shirts [are being sewn], and [the] paid rate is 4,800 kyats per hour, 1,200 kyats overtime, 1,000 kyats per day, and 10,000 kyats per shift...
...workers are being forced to [meet targets' that [are] much higher than what the workers can sew...
"...if we don't [meet] the requested [targets], the supers do things like yelling...Moreover...there are also physical violations," the worker said.
The workers also said that...if they take leave, their daily wages will be cut..
"It's pretty bad. Even if the worker gets up to drink water, the [supervisors] take pictures of them. They find no fault and fire them....The workers are miserable at work," said the worker.
[Translation via Google Translate]