Court of Amsterdam: G-Star Raw and Vert Asia Limited

G-Star ended its relationship with the Vietnamese clothing factory Vert too suddenly by no longer placing promised orders and also suddenly stopping normal orders. It has already been decided in an …

Extreme heat and flooding could cost Asian apparel manufacturing hubs US$65 billion in earnings: study

Climate impacts are set to stunt the growth of the fashion industry. Risks are not being planned for, as the industry focuses on mitigation rather than adaptation, a new report warns. …

Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam

Scholarship on labour informalisation in Vietnam pulls in two different directions. One set of policy-focused literature suggests that there is an increasing formalisation of labour. Literature of critical labour studies …

Vietnamese workers still in the dark about potential of new representative organisations

On a late Friday afternoon, thousands of workers are streaming out of the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, a dense industrial area crammed inside a tight bend in the Saigon …

Primark announces wage fund for garment workers

Primark, one of the UK’s most popular retailers, has announced it will create a fund to help pay the wages of the millions of garment workers affected by its decision to …

Is there a glimmer of hope for Vietnamese workers?

Last November, the Vietnamese National Assembly took a long-awaited decision on a demand that came from both inside and outside the country: to authorise independent trade unions from 2021. The measure, …

Opinion: EU-Vietnam trade deal a bad day for workers’ rights

https://euobserver.com/opinion/145250

Labor & Employment Law Strategic Global Topics: Summer 2017 – Religion in Workplace

This report by EY Labor and Employment Law provides brief overviews of how religious freedom in interplays with rights of the employer in their workplace in 24 countries. https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/ey-labor-law-strategic-global-topics-summer-2017-edition-cover/$FILE/ey-labor-law-strategic-global-topics-summer-2017-edition.pdf

Good practices on the role of trade unions in protecting and promoting the rights of migrant workers in Asia

This report documents selected good practices of trade union actions taken place in Cambodia, Hong Kong (China), Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Taiwan, China, …

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