Global brands linked to latest shamed garment factory

14 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Clothes / Economy and commerce / Exports / Garments and textiles / Human rights / Industries / Investment / Labor / Safety and health at work / Social development / Trade / Unions
Asda / BasicNet SpA / Betsy Harden / Better Factories Cambodia / BFC / Canada / CTX North America / Free Trade Union / George / Hung Tak Garment factory / ILO / International Labor Organization / Kappa / Mammy Maguire / Puneet Girdhar / U.S. / Walmart

Italian sportswear brand Kappa and U.S.-based retail giant Walmart apparently source clothing from the latest addition to the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) list of low-compliance factories, according to a union leader at the factory who provided the branded tags from the clothing her members cut and stitch. Hung Tak Garment factory was last week added to the “lowest compliance” category of the ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) transparency index. BFC inspectors identified 19 areas in which the factory did not meet basic standards, including illegal wage deductions and the failure to grant annual leave or pay for sick leave. ...

 Sun Heng and Holly Robertson
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