Legal battle over sacked migrant garment workers

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Campaigners lodge complaint against retailer which previously sued them over claims sacked workers were denied unpaid wages and severance payments

HAMBURG - German online retailer Otto is at legal loggerheads with workers' rights campaigners over allegations that migrant garment workers in its supply chain are being denied legally due unpaid wages and severance after their factory closed.

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) says Otto should use its leverage to persuade the owners of the former Royal Knitting factory in Thailand to pay $1 million owed to 209 workers, of which 90% are women from Myanmar, or honour the debt itself.

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