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New reports highlight wage theft in apparel supply chains in India, push for joint liability of global brands
The Asia Floor Wage Alliance recently released a report on Wage Theft, titled Money Heist : COVID 19 Wage Theft in Global Garment Supply Chains which studies the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic-induced recession on Asian garment workers employed in the supply chains of major global apparel brands. It highlights wage theft as the most common experience and pre-dominant consequence of the pandemic-induced recession on garment workers, which resulted in a devastating and prolonged humanitarian crisis. 2,185 garment workers employed across 189 supplier factories located in six countries - Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Bangladesh - took part in the survey for the report. Fifteen global fashion brands source their garments from these 189 factories. The report provides wage theft estimates across the surveyed factories