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Luxury fashion brand Loro Piana, a subsidiary of LVMH, has been placed under judicial administration for one year by a Milan court following allegations of labour exploitation within its Italian supply chain. Labour Exploitation Allegations The court ruled…
A group of 130 former employees at VK Garment Factory in Thailand are suing the supermarket and auditing specialists Intertek. The workers, represented by law firm Leigh Day in the UK, claimed that they were paid up to £4 a day, working seven days a week, and…
Several localities have reported demand for thousands of workers as manufacturers seek to scale up production. In some industrial parks in the southern provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong, hundreds of companies have put up hiring notices this week. South…
Vietnam’s rate of child labor, 5.3 percent, is around 2 percentage points lower than the average in Asia and the Pacific, a study has found. This equates to more than one million children in the ages of 5-17 engaged in labor, the survey was done in 2018 by…
The Australian dollar has fallen Tuesday, buying 69.45 US cents from 69.75 US cents on Monday. Yesterday, the local currency lost ground as the stalemate in Sino-US trade talks clouded the outlook for the Asian giant in its demand for resources. The Aussie…
US retailer Walmart is adding thousands of robots to its stores to handle cleaning tasks, allowing workers more time to help customers. Walmart said by February 2019, it will have introduced the 920-pound autonomous floor scrubbers at 1,860 of its 4,700 US…
The manufacturing sector, particularly textile and iron and steel segments, maintained its pace of sales growth in the second quarter of 2018-19 as compared to the year-ago period, the RBI said on Wednesday. Demand condition in the manufacturing sector…
The technology and engineering sectors will see strong growth in human resources demand in Vietnam in the next five years. The growth is forecast by 90 percent of experts polled in a survey recently released by online recruitment website VietnamWorks. The…
LG Display said last Wednesday it has installed electronic kiosks in its facilities across the country, helping employees make donations easily. The company said employees can swipe their identity cards on the kiosks and make donations ranging from 1,000 won…
Productivity is rising, but not as fast as wages, creating the risk of an economic imbalance. Vietnam’s labor productivity last year was among the lowest in Asia despite showing growth, according to a report published on Tuesday. Average productivity in…
A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that retailer Costco Wholesale had knowingly sold frozen prawns, the farming of which involved forced labour in Thailand. Judge Jeffrey White ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish that the world’s…
A large-scale investigation spanning multiple continents has revealed that top seafood retailers and restaurants around the world were using products that were tainted with forced slave labour, originating from Thailand’s seafood peeling factories. The Gig…
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