Transparentem presented its findings on the Malaysian apparel factories to 23 western companies, and 15 of them agreed to help remediate the five factories: Honsin Apparel, Whitex Garments, Perindustrian Shunhon, SP Garments and Knit Textile Manufacturing. They also got them to repay nearly $1.8m in recruitment fees to more than 2,500 workers. Transparentem found the recruitment fees for the Malaysian factories ranged from $745 to $4,356. Sixty percent of the workers Transparentem interviewed said recruiters had deceived them about their future pay and the nature of the work promised. Primark commissioned an audit of the factory, and both helped make sure Whitex ended recruitment fees and stopped withholding passports.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2019 06:00 UTC