Fashion Victims - Garment workers

Garment workers are treated unfairly in order to benefit from their efforts. Workers who cannot cope up with the production due to stress are fired. When pressure is on to fulfil large orders workers can be forced to work 18 hours a day. 

Garment workers get low wages and do not receive any benefits. Workers do not get any extra payment for overtime. The basic wages for garment workers are so low that they cannot refuse overtime. If they refuse to work overtime, they are fired. 

Child labour in the fashion supply chain is very common. According to the International Labour Organization, 260 million children are employed around the world. If these children are sent to schools and the unemployed youth is placed to work under such industries we can strike out two major problems at the same time, i.e., child labour and unemployment. Child labour is forbidden by law in most countries but continues to be rife in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Fast fashion promotes unethical and unsustainable methods that harm people working in the garment industry. People are recruited with false promises of a good job, only to find themselves trapped in a factory and employed at inhumanly low wages or under the promise of payment that they will likely never receive. These workers are forced to work long hours and in terrible conditions, risking their health and wellbeing.