Sri Lanka’s garment industry is celebrating a “historic” new union-employer agreement that labor campaigners say addresses vital human-rights issues for hundreds of thousands of workers. Forged ...

Labor unions have criticized the harsh treatment of garment workers in Sri Lanka after authorities allegedly “herded” them off into quarantine in the middle of the night following a sudden surge in ...

Around 2,000 workers from Vogue Tex garment factories located at Weligama and Hikkaduwa in Sri Lanka’s southern province held angry protests on April 8, and the following day, against management’s ...

On November 30, Brandix Essentials, an apparel manufacturing company in the Koggala Free Trade Zone (KFTZ), locked out about 1,500 workers after they stopped work to protest the slashing of their ...

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Garment workers sew pants in a Brandix factory in Colombo, in this photo taken October 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds COLOMBO, Nov 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When women ...

Niranjalee Sudhammika, a Sri Lankan garment factory worker, lost her job in April and has not received any compensation from the factory or the government. She was hired by a manpower agency and ...

Garment workers in Sri Lanka’s free trade zones have urged the government to protect their lives as the Covid-19 pandemic spreads rapidly in the zones. Sister Noel Christine Fernando of the Sisters of ...

The government has imposed a curfew in two suburbs where most of the infected people live. Sri Lanka has confirmed a cluster of more than 300 garment factory workers infected with coronavirus, days ...

DHAKA/COLOMBO/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bangladeshi garment exporter Shahidullah Azim woke up on Thursday to the shock of U.S. President Donald Trump slapping a 37% tariff on his country's exports, ...

Picture a young woman on a Hatton estate, sitting in a digital hub, completing a software quality assurance task for a ...