Gap and Old Navy in Bangladesh - Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights

12.10.13

Gap and Old Navy in Bangladesh - Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights: Gap's monitoring efforts have failed miserably. Each year, Gap and Next Collections factory management have cheated the workers of hundreds of thousands of dollars owed them.

In nearly 30 years of interviewing workers across the developing world, we have never seen workers who looked so exhausted. Thousands of garment workers at Next Collections factory in Bangladesh work well past 10 p.m. every day ─ sometimes until 5 a.m. ─ making children's skinny jeans and jeggings for Gap Inc.'s Old Navy stores. Phony pay stubs; make-believe 10-hour shifts; pregnant women cheated of maternity benefits; workers cheated of 15 percent of their overtime wages...while Gap and Old Navy stand by and do nothing.