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Victoria’s Secret agrees to finance $8.3 mln settlement for laid-off Thai workers

Thai workers who were sacked last year from a factory supplying global lingerie brands including Victoria’s Secret will receive $8.3 million, in what labour activists say is the biggest settlement of its kind in the global garment industry. About 1,200 workers were laid off without severance pay and wages owed to them by Brilliant Alliance Thai Global Co Ltd (BAT) after it went bankrupt and shut down its factory in Samut Prakan province in March 2021.

The incident was one of “hundreds of cases of wage theft” that labour activists say took place in the garment industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The settlement, financed by Victoria’s Secret in a loan arrangement with BAT’s owner, could set a precedent for global brands to better protect the rights of workers in their supply chains, according to Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights…

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