{"id":41610,"date":"2022-02-11T22:47:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/11\/indian-supplier-to-uk-fashion-brands-agrees-to-pay-3m-in-unpaid-wages"},"modified":"2022-02-11T22:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:47:43","slug":"indian-supplier-to-uk-fashion-brands-agrees-to-pay-3m-in-unpaid-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41610","title":{"rendered":"Indian supplier to UK fashion brands agrees to pay \u00a33m in unpaid wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shahi Exports, which makes clothes for the UK high street, has agreed to pay staff minimum wage and arrears<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s largest garment company has paid out an estimated \u00a33m in unpaid wages to tens of thousands of workers, after two years of refusing to pay the legal minimum wage. <\/p>\n<p>Last month Shahi Exports, which supplies dozens of international brands, agreed to pay nine months of back pay to about 80,000 workers, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-humanrights.org\/en\/latest-news\/india-shahi-exports-commits-to-paying-80000-workers-unpaid-wages-worth-approx-10-million\/\">further payments expected in the coming months<\/a> that will increase the total paid back to workers to \u00a37m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/11\/indian-supplier-to-uk-fashion-brands-agrees-to-pay-3m-in-unpaid-wages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahi Exports, which makes clothes for the UK high street, has agreed to pay staff minimum wage and arrearsIndia\u2019s largest garment company has paid out an estimated \u00a33m in unpaid wages to tens of thousands of workers, after two years of refusing to pay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,576,833,1453,1617,62,78,2457,1768,61,1010,2428,42,1477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-garment-workers","category-hm","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-marks-spencer","category-nike","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tesco","category-workers-rights","category-world-news","category-zara"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41611,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41610\/revisions\/41611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}