Pakistan garment worker wage audits under fire

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Brands accused as new report from Labour Behind the Label says that so-called wage compliance programmes have left workers underpaid and ‘silenced’

LAHORE — Global fashion brands are facing fresh scrutiny over alleged underpayment and intimidation of garment workers in Pakistan, after a new report warned that wage ‘compliance’ programmes were failing to protect employees.

UK-based campaign group Labour Behind the Label has published a 43-page report, Silenced: How wage “compliance” is failing workers in Pakistan, based on a survey of 255 workers across eight export-oriented factories supplying major international fashion brands.

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