Hong Seng Knitting
Thailand
Workers at the Hong Seng Knitting garment factory in Thailand who sew university logo apparel for Nike have been subjected to abuse, wage theft and retaliation by factory management from May - October 2020. After the pandemic caused a drop in orders, factory management compelled workers to sign a form falsely stating that they wanted to take voluntary unpaid leave. Nike claims that most workers volunteered to take unpaid leave, even though all of them could have chosen to be paid. The company has no explanation for why hundreds of workers would freely choose to give up wages to which they were legally entitled.
Hulu Garment
Cambodia
Hulu Garment, a sewing facility supplying Amazon, Adidas, Walmart, Macy’s, and LT Apparel Group located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, suspended its entire workforce of 1,020 workers at the beginning of March 2020. A month later the factory reopened but at least 500 of the workers were never rehired. A year later, these workers continue to demand payment of the severance they would be legally owed if they had been fired, because they had been scammed and had not voluntarily resigned.