By Yoon Satt - Jan 30, 2024
LUCKY FORTUNE GARMENT workers said that the factory does not allow them to take leave and benefits are cut if they do. Furthermore, child laborers are also forced to work the same as other workers, exceeding the working hours.
The legal leaves are also not permitted fairly. Only those who are comfortable with the supervisors are entitled and there are discriminations.
“Those who are related to or comfortable with the supers get leaves. Those who have ever complaint the supers never get a leave. They are labeled as absent even if they actually work after informing leave. 5,800 kyats daily wages and 10,000 kyats attendance bonus are cut when the salary is issue for taking leave a day,” said a factory worker.
A worker said that the LUCKY FORTUNE GARMENT factory locates at Sayar U Htun Street, Shwe Pyi Thar Industrial Zone (4), Insein Township and assigning the child labors the same tasks with other labors instead of the legal working hours for the underage workers. Those children are asked the same fabric targets and oppressed.
Fabric targets are asked for each cavity and 60 fabric targets are demanded to finish per hour. The supervisors and supers verbally abuse them for not finishing the targets and they feel like they are being discriminated against, the workers said.
LUCKY FORTUNE GARMENT factory has been repeatedly reported in Myanmar Labor News in 2023 due to the many violations against workers. The factory is a Chinese-owned factory with more than 1,000 workers and manufacturing brands such as TULTEX and EUCENTRO brands.
There is no valid trade union formed in the LUCKY FORTUNE GARMENT factory and the workers said that they want for equal holidays and medical leaves, the supers not to verbally abuse and not to discriminate against each other between workers.
