{"id":53090,"date":"2023-03-04T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/03\/thai-factory-used-by-tesco-faces-criminal-charges-over-treatment-of-workers"},"modified":"2023-03-04T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:15:02","slug":"thai-factory-used-by-tesco-faces-criminal-charges-over-treatment-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53090","title":{"rendered":"Thai factory used by Tesco faces criminal charges over treatment of workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: VKG, where workers made jeans for Tesco\u2019s Thai branch between 2017 and 2020, faces charges including fraud<\/p>\n<p>Thai police have brought criminal charges against a clothing factory that was used by Tesco to make F&amp;F clothes, over its treatment of workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian revealed in December that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-in-thailand-who-made-ff-jeans-for-tesco-trapped-in-effective-forced-labour\">Burmese workers who produced F&amp;F jeans for Tesco<\/a> in Thailand reported being made to work 99-hour weeks for illegally low pay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-tell-of-sweatshop-conditions-at-thai-factory-used-by-tesco\">terrible conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/03\/thai-factory-used-by-tesco-faces-criminal-charges-over-treatment-of-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: VKG, where workers made jeans for Tesco\u2019s Thai branch between 2017 and 2020, faces charges including fraudThai police have brought criminal charges against a clothing factory that was used by Tesco to make F&amp;F clothes, over its treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"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":[41,335,2509,1010,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-retail-industry","category-supermarkets","category-tesco","category-thailand","category-uk-news","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\/53090","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\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53090\/revisions\/53091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}