More than £4bn in wages has been withheld from millions of garment workers making clothes for western clothing brands over the past 15 years, according to new estimates on severance “wage theft” in the global fashion industry.
The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labour rights investigative organisation, says that garment workers have been denied billions of pounds of legally mandated severance pay, which they should have received after being sacked or losing their jobs due to brands cancelling orders or factory closures.
