{"id":51241,"date":"2022-12-19T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-tell-of-sweatshop-conditions-at-thai-factory-used-by-tesco"},"modified":"2022-12-19T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:00:15","slug":"what-do-you-mean-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51241","title":{"rendered":"What do you mean, day off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by Tesco, as supermarket says it knew nothing of claims about VKG <\/p>\n<p>In a factory at the Myanmar border in Thailand, hundreds of Burmese workers made F&amp;F jeans for Tesco. They describe sweatshop conditions, with 99-hour weeks, one day off a month and illegally low pay.<\/p>\n<p>Now Tesco is facing a landmark British lawsuit for alleged negligence, having used the VK Garment (VKG) factory in Mae Sot as a supplier to its Thai business from 2017 until the supermarket sold its operations in Asia in December 2020. The case is being brought by 130 former garment workers at the factory. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-tell-of-sweatshop-conditions-at-thai-factory-used-by-tesco\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by Tesco, as supermarket says it knew nothing of claims about VKG In a factory at the Myanmar border in Thailand, hundreds of Burmese workers made F&amp;F jeans for Tesco. They describe sweatsho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3483,"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":[41,833,335,1010,93,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fashion-industry","category-retail-industry","category-tesco","category-thailand","category-workers-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241","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\/3483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51242,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241\/revisions\/51242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}