No Contracts, no Rights: How the Fashion Industry Avoids Paying Minimum Wages in Pakistan In the first half of 2023, FEMNET and ECCHR, together with the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF), one of Pakistan's most important trade union organizations, investigated the extent to which companies covered by the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) comply with labour rights in Pakistan. The research has revealed that a large proportion of workers in textile factories in Pakistan's Sindh province do not receive the statutory minimum wage, which was increased in the summer of 2022. Many workers are also exposed to numerous other labor rights violations, especially with regard to working hours, vacation and sick pay, overtime pay as well as registration and contributions to social security and pension insurance. Publication date: 12/2023 "No Contracts, no Rights: How the Fashion Industry Avoids Paying Minimum Wages in Pakistan"Download in English (PDF-file, 13 MB) back
