Myanmar: Workers at Myanmar Guotai Huasheng Glory Fashion reported unfair dismissal, child labour and lack of dining facility
Summary
Date Reported: 20 Jul 2023
Location: Myanmar
Companies
Primark (part of Associated British Foods) - Buyer , Myanmar Guotai Huasheng Glory Fashion - Supplier , Carrefour - Former buyer , Auchan - Buyer , Pimkie (part of Association Familiale Mulliez) - Buyer , Lidl - Former buyerAffected
Total individuals affected: 700
Workers: ( 700 - Location unknown , Clothing & textile , Gender not reported )Issues
Occupational Health & Safety , Child labour , DismissalResponse
Response sought: Yes, by BHRRC
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: Guotai Huasheng Glory Fashion allegedly supplies or has supplied to Primark, Auchan, Carrefour, Lidl and Pimkie; Primark, Lidl and Auchan provided a response to an invite to comment from the Resource Centre. Pimkie did not respond. Carrefour and Lidl previously informed the Resource Centre that they no longer source from the factory.
Source type: News outlet
He said that he is sending a copy of the workers' registration to the office
...The workers said that some workers are being fired illegally, claiming that they have fake IDs, and that they are sending them to Lawa after asking for a copy of the civil registration with the workers' personal information.
The Myanmar Guotai Huasheng Glory Fashion Garment factory, which is owned by Chinese nationals and opened in Industrial Zone 2, Hlaing Tharyar Township, employs more than 700 workers and does not have a labor union.
After the factory manager told the workers that those holding fake registrations must quit of their own free will, a worker with 1 year of service was fired illegally on the grounds that the information in the registration was incorrect, and a worker with 2 months of service was fired for allegedly holding a fake registration.
The workers said that since the workers started applying for work, the information was filtered and received by the factory, and some workers were being fired on the grounds of citizenship registration, but underage workers were employed...
"They discriminate against people who ask for higher wages... When we eat, we have to stick together because we don't have enough space to eat. The employer blames the workers for this because they stick together," said the worker, who did not want to be named...
The factory is supplying PRIMARK, esmara, INEXTENSO.