A Swiss pressure group says some staff at Shein suppliers are still working excessive overtime.

Workers for some suppliers of Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are still working 75 hours a week, despite the company promising to improve conditions, a report suggests.

A new investigation by Swiss advocacy group Public Eye has followed up on its 2021 report, which found a number of staff across six sites in Guangzhou were doing excessive overtime.

According to the group, who interviewed 13 employees from six factories in China supplying Shein for its latest investigation, excessive overtime was still common for many workers.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    75 hours? What’s with these rookie numbers?! What happened to the good old days of Chinese sweatshops where people worked 14 hours, 7 days per week? What’s next, unions?!

    • Deway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      They’ve got you covered :

      However, an employee who has worked at sewing machines for 20 years told Public Eye: “I work every day from 8 in the morning to 10.30 at night and take one day off each month. I can’t afford any more days off because it costs too much."

      • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Besides, what would a union even be for? Since the company is owned by the workers (because it is owned by the state) any union action would just harm the workers themselves! We don’t want to encourage economic self-harm, do we?