WRC RESEARCH REPORT
Fired, Then Robbed:
Fashion brands’ complicity in wage
theft during Covid-19
Contributions to this report:
The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) thanks the garment workers we interviewed
and the following organizations for contributing information used in this report:
Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS), Bangladesh Independent
Garment Workers Union Federation (BIGUF), the Center for Alliance of Labor and
Human Rights (CENTRAL) in Cambodia, the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions
(CATU), the Clean Clothes Campaign, the Garment and Textile Workers Union
(GATWU) in India, Gabungan Serikat Buruh Indonesia (GSBI), MAP Foundation in
Thailand, Maquila Solidarity Network in Canada, offices of the Solidarity Center in
various countries, Serikat Pekerja Nasional (SPN) in Indonesia, and Solidarity Trade
Union of Myanmar (STUM). The WRC also utilized information provided in reports
from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, WageIndicator Foundation,
the Home-Based Women Workers Federation in Pakistan, and Partido Manggagawa
in the Philippines.
Note: The currency used throughout this report is US dollars.
Cover photo:
Garment workers block a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 20, 2020, in a protest
to demand their unpaid wages during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of
the coronavirus. Photo: Sk Hasan Ali
April 2021