NL: Retailers Zeeman, WE Fashion linked to Indian factories abusing workers
AMSTERDAM - Dutch clothing retail chains Zeeman and WE Fashion have done business with Indian spinning mills where the rights of workers were heavily violated. Workers there were largely lured with false wage promises, isolated from the outside world and forced to work overtime under threats, Volkskrant reported.
This has emerged from the research of two organizations that spoke to more than 700 employees at 29 weaving mills in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. In addition to serious human and workers rights violations, cases of child labor were also recorded.