By Yoon Sat - Sep 27, 2024

The workers who report serious threatens of the employer of Tai Hong Garment factory which located at Myaytaing 49 street, War Ta Yar Industrial Zone, Shwe Pyi Thar Township reached settlement after complaining to the labour office.

The employer and workers signed a contract peacefully after agreeing to not allow the foreigner experts to directly manage the workers and verbally abuse them, to follow the employment contract and to not discriminate and hold grudges to the workers.

Workers report the factory for exploiting their wages, asking for excessive fabric demands, forcing overtime, not allowing day off to day laborers, dismissing day laborers only by employer’s consents and denying legal leaves.

They also said that the factory doesn’t follow the employment contract terms and priorly cutting their wages. They neither get legal leaves and social leaves. Those who took are cut and transferred to other departments.

“As of my knowledges, both the employer and workers satisfied after negotiations and they already signed a contract,” said a person who is close to the workers.

But the terms and conditions of the contract are not yet known.

The factory is manufacturing EVERLAST and DIEM brand apparels with more than 1,000 workers. The factory has been operating for around 10 years but there is not trade union.

The workplace coordination committee cannot resolve the workers damages and disputes and the workers also complaint to appoint a new WCC.