Myanmar: Garment workers report delayed wages at shoe factory
Resumo
Data informada: 14 Mar 2023
Localização: Myanmar
Empresas
Mountain Top - Supplier , Wortmann Schuh-Holding - Buyer , Tamaris - Buyer , Caprice - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida , Calçados , Gender not reported )Temas
Dismissal , Discriminação por Gravidez , Wage TheftResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por BHRRC
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: Mountain Top allegedly supplies to Wortmann Schuh-Holding for its Tamaris and Caprice brands ; Wortmann Schuh-Holding did not provide a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre.
Tipo de fonte: Social Media
… At the Mountain Top shoe factory…workers who quit their jobs are not being paid the wages they are due and they are delaying and causing difficulties. The employee quit his job and went to collect the remaining salary on the pay day, but did not receive it….On March 3, 2023, when I went to collect the wages, I waited from 7:30 in the morning, but I did not receive it until…the afternoon. When I contacted him by phone, he replied that he was in a meeting and was not ready yet. Recently, there has been a delay in the payment of such wages. In the past, a female worker was dismissed because she was pregnant. The factory is a factory owned by Taiwanese citizens and mainly sews CAPRICE brand shoes and also sews tamaris brand shoes. According to the investigation, it is known that the Mountain Top factory in Shwe Pytha has a branch factory named New Way in Hlaing Tharay too…
[Translation via Google Translate]