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24 February 2023

The footwear sector of Bucaramanga is reactivated thanks to the opening of borders

The opening of the common border between Colombia and Venezuela has begun to generate benefits for the neighboring country's trade sectors. One of them is the footwear industry. This is reported by digital media such as Blu Radio. The station reported that it will need to hire more than 2,000 workers at shoe factories in Bucaramanga, Colombia. [Se reactiva industria de calzado en Colombia- Venezuela News]

23 February 2023

PouYuen Vietnam Footwear Company did not renew the contract with 2,500 employees in March

PouYuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. will not continue to sign contracts with 2,500 workers in March 2023. The company will coordinate with the grassroots trade union for contract termination and benefits. PouYuen belongs to Taiwan Pouchen Int. Group, located in Tan Tao Ward, Binh Tan District, with 50,563 employees (At one point, workers numbered 100,000 people). [Công ty PouYuen Việt Nam không tái ký hợp đồng với 2.500 lao động trong tháng 3- Báo Thanh Niên]

10 February 2023

South Korea is the world’s 10th-biggest economy and is leading an oriental fashion revolution

But the won has long been treated like an emerging-market currency. The government is trying to change that — and join currencies like the U.S. dollar, euro, and yen — by loosening trading restrictions. The new measures will double the hours of open trading and let international investors deal directly with local brokerages that might offer better rates. South Koreans are the world's biggest spenders on luxury goods and the country is the first and the biggest foreign investor in the RMG and textile sector in Bangladesh

08 February 2023

At the end of 2022, Indonesia lost more than 25,000 jobs in the footwear sector

Indonesia posts 5.31% GDP growth in 2022, - reports the CNA news agency - , the highest in almost a decade. In contrast, thousands of workers in the footwear industry in Tangerang, Banten, were laid off in the last quarter of last year. The president general of the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) Eddy Widjanarko had already declared in November that the number of workers laid off in the footwear sector had reached 25,700. [Ribuan Pekerja of Industri Sepatu Tangerang Kena PHK ... - Tempo.co]

06 February 2023

Stay or Go? In Myanmar, fashion faces more questions than answers

Khaing Zar Aung, president of the Myanmar Federation of Industry Workers, despairs on the fashion companies that continue to source from Myanmar, reports the Sourcing Journal. The President of Industrial Workers’ Federation of Myanmar (IWFM) and Treasurer of Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar (CTUM) has joined hands with workers to call out the violent military regime that has taken over her country. [Myanmar human rights abuses can be stopped – here's how- Australian Unions]

31 January 2023

Imported clothing and footwear: Canada could have a new forced labor law on the books as soon as this summer

The bill, known as S-211, would require most companies operating in the country to publicly disclose what they are doing to prevent and reduce the risk of forced and child labor in their supply chains. It zipped past the country’s Senate in November and is currently awaiting approval in the House of Commons. If passed, it will go into force in 2024. [Canada Looks Poised to Pass Law on Forced Labor - Wall Street Journal]

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