By Min Ni Kyaw - Feb 24, 2024

KBL garment factory from Industrial Zone(1) Kyan Sit Thar Street, Hlaing Thar Yar Township, Yangon region which is manufacturing bride dress is intimidating the workers that those who don’t work overtime will be fined for a month, according to the workers.

KBL Garment usually calls overtimes from 16:30 to midnight 21:00 and 22:00 and the workers asked the factory to let them go at 18:00 due to the current political situations but the factory responded as above.

“The all supers and supers told that those who don’t work overtime will be fined for a month. It is difficult for us. We can’t live comfortable only with the salary. It would be convenient only if we work 2 hours of overtime for a week. Not working overtime at all will make us struggle. So that, we have no choice but to do,” said the workers.

Salary is issued twice a month with half amount per once and the overtime wages beyond 18:30 are given at the end of the month. The wages other two hours of overtime is given after the next 5 days.

Workers are asked for fabric outputs which exceeds than their productivity and the all supers and supers are verbally abusing them to meet that. Legal leaves are access only after being scolded.

The workers seeks for reducing the overtime to 18:30 and only let those who have consents to work until mid-night, to give legal leaves, to assign only the possible amounts to them, not to force them and verbally abuse them.

KBL Garment factory is a factory owned by a Chinese national and manufacturing DAVIDS BRIDAL and Studio brands bride dresses.