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Pay cuts and forced overtime: COVID-19 takes heavy toll on Ethiopia's garment workers


Pay cuts and forced overtime: COVID-19 takes heavy toll on Ethiopia s garment workers
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Emeline Wuilbercq
HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even before COVID-19 struck, the women stitching clothes at Ethiopia’s Hawassa industrial park were among the world’s worst-paid garment workers - many making less than $30 per month.
Today, pay cuts and forced overtime have become common in short-staffed factories abandoned by hundreds of former employees - some too scared of catching the coronavirus to return, several workers told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Tigist, a 20-year-old seamstress, said some of her colleagues had not come back to Hawassa after they were furloughed in the early months of the pandemic, as the global garment industry was hammered by cancelled orders. ....

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FEATURE-Pay cuts and forced overtime: COVID-19 takes heavy toll on Ethiopia's garment workers


FEATURE-Pay cuts and forced overtime: COVID-19 takes heavy toll on Ethiopia s garment workers
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12/22/2020
By Emeline Wuilbercq
HAWASSA, Ethiopia, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - E ven before COVID-19 struck, the women stitching clothes at Ethiopia s Hawassa industrial park were among the world s worst-paid garment workers - many making less than $30 per month.
Today, pay cuts and forced overtime have become common in short-staffed factories abandoned by hundreds of former employees - some too scared of catching the coronavirus to return, several workers told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Tigist, a 20-year-old seamstress, said some of her colleagues had not come back to Hawassa after they were furloughed in the early months of the pandemic, as the global garment industry was hammered by cancelled orders. ....

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Will Cambodia's garment sector rebound after 'horror year'?


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KANDAL PROVINCE, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lon Vanna has been working around the clock for months but she doesn’t sew clothes anymore - she guards the machines in the abandoned garment factory in Cambodia where she once worked.
Vanna believes the sewing machines are her only hope for saving her home and land, which she put up as collateral for a loan to feed herself and her ailing parents after the new coronavirus pandemic shuttered the factory in March.
“Those machines are my money; they are my life,” Vanna said, pledging to hold them hostage until she receives about $2,000 in wages and bonuses owed since bosses shut the factory, some 50km south of the capital, Phnom Penh, unannounced. ....

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