Lucky Brand pays up for Guatemalan workers

GUATEMALA CITY – Worker rights campaigners have praised US denim and apparel company Lucky Brand after it paid $500,000 to former garment workers at a supply factory in Guatemala which closed without paying legally due severance.

The US-based Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) says the Industrial Hana factory closed down in October 2023 without paying its 246 employees $1.5 million in unpaid severance and other benefits owed to them under Guatemalan law.