The agreement is the largest-ever wage theft settlement at an individual garment factory, the international workers rights group Solidarity Centre said. "The doors of the Labor Ministry were locked when we went there to seek help and the minister didn't seem to want to listen to our problem." "If we hadn't fought for fair compensation, we wouldn't have received anything," Jitnawatcharee, who is also president of Triumph International Workers' Union of Thailand, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Victoria secret payment full#
"We regret they were not ultimately in a position to conclude this matter on their own so to ensure the workers received their full severance amounts owed, Victoria's Secret agreed to advance the severance funds to the factory owners," it added.įormer worker Jitnawatcharee Panad had clocked up 25 years at the factory and said over a third of the sacked workers were women aged 45 and older. "Over several months we had been in active communication with the factory owners to facilitate a resolution," the company said. Victoria's Secret confirmed in a statement that an agreement had been reached, but did not mention the amount involved. The factory also produced underwear for plus-size American brands Lane Bryant and Torrid, owned by Sycamore Partners –- but only Victoria's Secret contributed to the settlement via a loan arrangement with the factory's owners. But the 1250 laid-off workers – many of whom had worked at the factory for over a decade – did not receive severance payouts mandated under the Thai law. In a landmark settlement honoring labor rights, global lingerie brand Victoria's Secret paid $8.3 million to compensate over 1200 sacked Thai garment workers who made bras at a factory.īrilliant Alliance Thai closed down its Samut Prakan factory in March 2021 after going bankrupt.
0 kommentar(er)
