The world's second largest fashion retailer, H&M, said it was investigating 20 violations of labours' rights at its Myanmar garment factories, Reuters reported on August 16.

 Its rival Zara's Inditex has said in the past few weeks that it has stopped buying from Southeast Asian countries.

 The Reuters also expressed that labour’s rights have deteriorated since the military coup based on a British-based human rights group’s information which said there were 156 cases of abuse of workers in 156 garment factories in Myanmar from February 2022 to February 2023, compared to 56 the previous year.

 Furthermore, reduction of wages, labour theft, unfair dismissals, inhumanely workload and forcing overtime are also known to be occurring at garment factories in Myanmar from the report of non-government Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC).

 “We are deeply concerned about the latest developments in Myanmar. We are seeing more and more challenges to conduct our business in accordance with our standards and requirements.”, said by Sweden based H&M company.

 BHRRC also stated that the SRC’s coup leads the country to political and humanitarian crisis and also 124 garment factories in Myanmar have been found accused of violating labor rights.

 It is also expressed that BHRRC is inspecting the brands which are expressed for violations from the sources such as Trade Union’s leaders, International Medias and Local Medias which are expressing about the labour issues such as Myanmar Labour News and trying to confirm the reports by interviewing the labours.

 There have been 21 alleged violations against workers at Zara Inditex’s brands manufacturing garment factories and 20 cases at H&M’s brands manufacturing garment factories within two years, according to the BHRRC report.

 Reuters reported that Inditex declined to comment on the report, while the Burmese junta spokesman and Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association officials did not respond.