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Fair Wear Foundation releases report on Indian apparel industry

Fair Wear Foundation has published a report ‘Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) India Country Study 2016’. The 56 page report states there is no child labour in the garment industry of the country now as compared to what was in 2000. Similarly there is no discrimination either on the basis of religion or caste. And to top it all, women get equal pay for equal work as men do and get.

The report says that during the FWF audits, evidence of forced and/or bonded labour was difficult to find and is mostly linked to forced overtime though the report also says that there is violation in the area of occupational health and safety. The FWF audit was conducted in apparel manufacturing hubs like Delhi, Noida, Tirupur and Karnataka between 2013 and 2016.

In the North, it was observed that the second most recurrent violation is the lack of internal and formal means of communication followed by the absence of legal contracts. In the South, the second highest number of violation is in the area of payment of wages followed by the lack of internal and formal means of communication. ‘Most workers are actually hired through recommendations of fellow workers or contractors, who help recruit workers from their native villages,’ it further adds.

The report stresses on increasing the activities of labour department as it figured out that the Department of Labour in Noida only has 12 labour inspectors who, in 2015-2016, carried out 21 inspections at 964 garment factories in the region. FWF has been active in India from past 13 years and its 40 members (mostly those in fashion and sportswear) source from more than 160 Indian factories. Of these factories, 45 per cent are located in North India while 55 per cent are based in South India.

 
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