Bangladesh's garments manufacturers body has called for a complete shutdown of all facilities causing a major disruption to the nation's key industry, according to a BBC report. Pedestrians walk past an H&M store on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, July 27, 2024 Which companies will be affected because of Bangladesh's political situation? This shutdown of garment factories will …
Some businesses have reopened, but mobile internet and social media sites are still blocked. Bangladesh has started to relax a curfew that it imposed after days of deadly clashes between student protesters demanding reforms to a job quota system and a combination of law enforcement officials and members and supporters of the governing party’s youth wing. The protests that started …
The challenges over the past year at India’s textile and apparel sector, the country’s second-largest employer with almost 45 million direct jobs, have exposed the vulnerabilities of its workers and the fragile ecosystem they operate in. Ghost towns Electrical posts, factory gates, or tree trunks that carried “tailors wanted”/“workers wanted” boards at Tiruppur, known as India’s ‘t-shirt town’, stand bare. …
Mumbai: Illegal garment factories continue to thrive and pose fire hazards in several slum pockets in the city despite multiple complaints by activists and two recent incidents of fire in these factories – essentially slum homes with multiple sewing machines – in Santacruz East. An official from the buildings and factories department of BMC’s H East ward the civic body …
H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, is investigating 20 alleged instances of labour abuse at Myanmar garment factories that supply it, Reuters news agency has reported, just weeks after Zara-owner Inditex, the top fashion retailer, said it was phasing out purchases from the Southeast Asian country. A British-based human rights advocacy group tracked 156 cases of alleged worker abuse in …
Major international retailers and trade unions extend their agreement on ensuring workplace safety at the factories. Major global retailers have agreed on a two-year pact with garment workers and factory owners in Bangladesh, extending a pre-existing agreement that makes retailers liable if their factories do not meet labour safety standards. “This is a legally binding agreement between companies and trade …
