By Hsu latt phyu - Feb 01, 2024
Mai Yi Bei (Yangon) garment factory which locates at Padauk Street, Shwe Lin Ban Industrial Zone, Hlaing Thar Yar Township Yangon said that they are being asked for lavish fabric outputs and forced to work overtime for free if they don’t finish.
The factory is a Chinese national owned factory which manufacture Sinsay brand women wafer skirts with more than 500 work force.
“Although the factory said that we are working with ticket fee, the employer never set the ticket fee of the newly came in fabric points but only how much output the workers should give. A Chinese national woman and a technology expert manage the cavity and a Shan-Chinese mix Arr Shan manages other departments. They ask the impossible amounts from the workers. Asking such as 50 fabric pieces per hour for the cavities with 50 workers are one sided demand from the employer. We can’t go back home but have to work overtime from 18:00 to 20:00 if the employers’ demands are not finish.
According to the worker, the fabric target is set monthly for each cavities and wages are cut if not met.
"They asked to sew by saying that they would give fabric fees in other departments it is less than 1,000 even if the workers work continuously without a break," said the worker.
More than 50 day laborers are hired and they are usually fired for missing a day of work and those with more than 3 months of service also have many losses as they not appointed as permanent laborers but repeatedly hired and dismissed.
The workers aren’t dare to take causal and medical leaves as the supers hold grudges upon those who did so 5,600 daily wages and 20,000 attendance bonuses are cut to them for their mandatory absents.
“Recently, the factory made the one day work and one day off system due to the low orders and said that we have to work substitute days if orders become normal. The employer never negotiate with the workers but acting like leave if we could not agree on his actions with his own accord. The workers’ toilets are also not clean,” they said.
The workers want resolvents upon issues such as workers’ legal leaves, supervisors holding grudges for leave takers, permanent employment for those with more than 3 months of service, fabric outputs that align with the workers productivity and overtime wages.
