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WRC issues report on Shahi Exports’ unfair practices

US-based Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent labour rights monitoring organization focused on protecting the rights of workers, has released a 29-page report assessing India’s biggest apparel exporter, Shahi Exports. The report claims mid-level professionals of the export house threatened and misbehaved with workers asking for wage increase. There are many more serious allegations of abuse and violence on the managers of the company.

With a turnover of $850 million (Rs 5800 cr.) and nearly one lakh workers, Shahi Exports has more than 50 garment manufacturing units across India. This report is based on recent developments at one of the Bangalore based units of the company.

The WRC claims to have prepared this report on the basis of interviews with more than 30 workers. Insisting on corrective action and remediation, the report demands those workers who have been physically assaulted and suspended from their jobs must be allowed to return to work with full back pay, compensation for their injuries, pain, and suffering, and loss of personal property from the April 4 attack. In addition, the report demands a written apology from the company for the injustice.

It has also been demanded that those managers and supervisors, involved in such violations, either actively or by allowing such practices to occur on factory premises, must be meaningfully disciplined, before these employees, who were the victims of the violence and other abuses at the factory, return to work. Also, termination of all those identified, in this report, for directing or perpetrating physical violence or death threats against workers, has been sought.

Shahi Exports is quoted saying the management was not involved in the altercation. They claim that there was no physical attack from Shahi’s management and the altercation that occurred happened outside the factory and just between workers. It is further claimed that it was the suspended workers who initiated the violence and the management believes they were the aggressors.

 

 
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