labour

Retail Asia21/12/2022

A group of 130 former employees at VK Garment Factory in Thailand are suing the supermarket and auditing specialists Intertek. The workers, represented by law firm Leigh Day in the UK, claimed that they were paid up to £4 a day, working seven days a week, and “trapped in a cycle of forced labour and […]

Retail Asia26/02/2021

Several localities have reported demand for thousands of workers as manufacturers seek to scale up production. In some industrial parks in the southern provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong, hundreds of companies have put up hiring notices this week. South Korean textile firm Taekwang Vina in Dong Nai is looking for 3,000 workers as […]

Retail Asia22/12/2020

Vietnam’s rate of child labor, 5.3 percent, is around 2 percentage points lower than the average in Asia and the Pacific, a study has found. This equates to more than one million children in the ages of 5-17 engaged in labor, the survey was done in 2018 by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social […]

Retail Asia04/06/2019

The Australian dollar has fallen Tuesday, buying 69.45 US cents from 69.75 US cents on Monday. Yesterday, the local currency lost ground as the stalemate in Sino-US trade talks clouded the outlook for the Asian giant in its demand for resources. The Aussie dollar slipped 0.4 percent to 69.75 US cents on Monday and ever […]

Retail Asia26/04/2019

US retailer Walmart is adding thousands of robots to its stores to handle cleaning tasks, allowing workers more time to help customers. Walmart said by February 2019, it will have introduced the 920-pound autonomous floor scrubbers at 1,860 of its 4,700 US stores. The robots will clean the floors and unload boxes in its stockrooms. The “smart assistants” […]

Retail Asia28/12/2018

The manufacturing sector, particularly textile and iron and steel segments, maintained its pace of sales growth in the second quarter of 2018-19 as compared to the year-ago period, the RBI said on Wednesday. Demand condition in the manufacturing sector “maintained its pace in the September quarter 2018-19 as reflected in strong sales growth (year-on-year)”, as per the RBI analysis of […]

Retail Asia13/12/2018

The technology and engineering sectors will see strong growth in human resources demand in Vietnam in the next five years. The growth is forecast by 90 percent of experts polled in a survey recently released by online recruitment website VietnamWorks. The survey was done in the second half of this year by polling more than […]

Retail Asia26/11/2018

LG Display said last Wednesday it has installed electronic kiosks in its facilities across the country, helping employees make donations easily. The company said employees can swipe their identity cards on the kiosks and make donations ranging from 1,000 won ($0.88) to 10,000 won, which will be automatically deducted from their paychecks. LG Display said […]

Retail Asia10/05/2018

Productivity is rising, but not as fast as wages, creating the risk of an economic imbalance. Vietnam’s labor productivity last year was among the lowest in Asia despite showing growth, according to a report published on Tuesday. Average productivity in Vietnam increased by 36 percent from VND38.64 million per worker in 2006 to VND60.73 million […]

Retail Asia26/01/2017

A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that retailer Costco Wholesale had knowingly sold frozen prawns, the farming of which involved forced labour in Thailand. Judge Jeffrey White ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish that the world’s second largest retail chain was bound to inform customers that modern-day slavery could be part […]

Retail Asia21/12/2015

A large-scale investigation spanning multiple continents has revealed that top seafood retailers and restaurants around the world were using products that were tainted with forced slave labour, originating from Thailand’s seafood peeling factories. The Gig Peeling Factory on the outskirts of Bangkok houses horrors made of nightmares. Here, the forced labourers work for 16 hours […]

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Tesco faces legal claims over worker conditions at Thai clothing factory

Workers in high demand as factories expand production

Vietnam child labor rate lower than regional average

Australian dollar slides Again

Walmart Hires robots to handle cleaning and unboxing

Strong sales growth for India’s textile manufacturing sector in Q2

Tech, engineering to have great demand for workers in Vietnam: survey

LG Display adds kiosks that let employees donate money

Vietnamese labor productivity among lowest in Asia

Retail giant Costco wins dismissal of prawn lawsuit over Thai forced labour

Supermarkets, restaurants worldwide admit to using slave labour-processed seafood