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An estimated 10,000 Sri Lankan migrant workers are reported to be unemployed due to COVID-19, and many more are at an increased risk of wage theft. Solidarity Center, along with other organizations, endorses the list of 14 ways employers can protect workers from wage...
Gig economy workers, considered contractors by the company Rappi, are asking for better pay and working conditions, and access to the social safety net. According to a study published last year by the Labor Observatory of the University of Rosario, the Solidarity...
The impact of COVID-19 on Cambodia's informal workers is likely underestimated. Speaking on the construction sector, Solidarity Center's Khun Taro, Cambodian program coordinator, says 'as many as 80% of construction workers were employed informally as of 2018, placing...
"Clean Clothes Campaign and Worker Rights Consortium, with contributions by Solidarity Center, conducted the research on nonpayment of wages to garment workers resulting from order cancellations by apparel brands, unpaid leave and state-sanctioned wage cuts during the...
Over 200 Guatemalan garment workers tested positive for COVID-19, supplying for Gap, Amazon and American Eagle. Solidarity Center's Central American program director, Stephen Wishart, reports that "During COVID, the brands continued to put orders into these factories...
Neha Misra, senior migration specialist for the Solidarity Center, said lack of freedom of association for migrant workers is leading to wage theft.
The “OTUWA Health Survey,” carried out in collaboration with the Solidarity Center, is designed to gather information that will help OTUWA to support healthcare workers. It is also a prelude to a sub-regional campaign being planned by OTUWA on the theme: “Healthcare...
Gladys Cisneros, country program director at the Solidarity Center in Mexico City, says under the USMCA, Mexico will have to clear a huge backlog of labor disputes. And the courts have been shut down because of the coronavirus. "It's not the most reassuring landscape,...
The rankings used to bring with them a risk to a country's reputation. "Reputationally it meant a lot. It was embarrassing to be on Tier 3 or the Tier 2 Watch List. And if the tier rankings don't mean anything, then that reputational pressure is gone," said the...
The garment industry tends to invest where the rule of law is weakest, where there are sizable degrees of poverty and a degree of impunity, said the Solidarity Center's David Welsh on the podcast, "On the Level with Jeff Hutton," With the advent of the pandemic,...