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Health vulnerabilities of readymade garment (RMG) workers: a …

(3 days ago) WEBSouth and Southeast Asian focus on readymade garment (RMG) workers’ health vulnerabilities. Garment workers globally experience distinctive vulnerabilities in the workplace [1, 2].These occupational vulnerabilities are related to dangerous and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334416/

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Body as machine: Health vulnerability of women garment factory …

(7 days ago) WEBFew studies that have examined the health of women garment workers report a range of conditions around bodily pain including musculoskeletal (headache, …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523000859

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Garment Workers Today Struggle with the Same Issues …

(8 days ago) WEBA 2016 report from the UCLA Labor Center, the Garment Worker Center, and the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health found alarming statistics drawn from 300-plus surveys of garment …

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a35696959/garment-workers-international-womens-day/

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Garment worker rights and the fashion industry’s response to …

(2 days ago) WEBThe Center for Global Worker Rights (CGWR) conducted a survey of Bangladeshi garment manufacturers, estimating buyers have canceled $1.44 billion …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043820620933851

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Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new research

(4 days ago) WEBAbstract. Amidst new global initiatives to promote garment workers’ health and safety following a spate of deadly factory disasters across the Global South, this critical review …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322191124_Health_and_safety_in_garment_workers'_lives_Setting_a_new_research_agenda

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Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new research

(7 days ago) WEBFindings from India suggest that garment factory workers stop labouring by the time they are 30–35 years old, not only because of capital’s strategies to replenish …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718517303366

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Health and Safety: Getting sick and risking lives - Clean …

(5 days ago) WEBThe most pressing health issues for garment workers are related to the extremely long workdays. Poor ergonomics combined with long hours and the constant pressure to meet production quotas lead to eyestrain, …

https://cleanclothes.org/issues/ohs

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Protecting Garment Workers from Systemic Abuse

(8 days ago) WEBOn Sept. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Garment Worker Protection Act, a law that protects workers from abusive labor practices. …

https://blog.dol.gov/2021/10/18/protecting-garment-workers-from-systemic-abuse

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(PDF) Introduction: Rethinking Garment Workers’ …

(8 days ago) WEBThese conditions can affect workplace health and safety through high employee turnover, inadequate training and weak enforcement of labour protections (Quinlan, Mayhew and Bohle, 2001;Howse

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319487545_Introduction_Rethinking_Garment_Workers'_Health_and_Safety_Health_and_Safety_of_the_World's_Garment_Workers

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Covid-19 and Garment Workers - Worker Rights …

(6 days ago) WEBWorker Rights Consortium Guidelines for Workers’ Compensation for Workers at Garment Factories Who Contract Covid-19. In the face of countless outbreaks of the Covid-19 illness in factories and other …

https://www.workersrights.org/issues/covid-19/

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The world’s garment workers are on the frontlines of climate

(7 days ago) WEBWorkers at three other factories in Phnom Penh, the country’s capital, producing clothes for brands like Primark, H&M, and Old Navy (owned by Gap Inc.), told …

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-world-s-garment-workers-are-on-the-frontlines-of-climate-impacts/ar-AA1o1CCZ

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The Exploitation of Garment Workers: Threading the Needle on …

(4 days ago) WEBWe will use all available enforcement tools to hold manufacturers and contractors accountable when they violate those rights. The exploitation of workers is …

https://blog.dol.gov/2023/03/21/the-exploitation-of-garment-workers-threading-the-needle-on-fast-fashion

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Seven ways to help garment workers Fashion The Guardian

(2 days ago) WEBG arment workers around the world experience low wages and exploitation. This is nothing new, but Jessica Simor QC, a barrister at Matrix chambers who has …

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jul/09/seven-ways-to-help-garment-workers

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Registered health problems and demographic profile of integrated

(7 days ago) WEBSimilarly, a study of general health problems among female garment workers in India showed that older age workers have a significantly higher risk for …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11556-4

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Unsafe workplaces — Clean Clothes Campaign

(2 days ago) WEBMost garment workers do not feel safe at work. Not only are they working in dangerous buildings, but workers are routinely exposed to inhumanely high temperatures, harmful …

https://cleanclothes.org/unsafe-workplaces

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Fast Fashion Getting Faster: A Look at the Unethical Labor …

(8 days ago) WEBMany garment workers are working up to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. The textile industry also uses child labor particularly because it is often low skilled, so …

https://studentbriefs.law.gwu.edu/ilpb/2021/10/28/fast-fashion-getting-faster-a-look-at-the-unethical-labor-practices-sustaining-a-growing-industry/

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Social stressors and social resources at work and - BMC Public …

(7 days ago) WEBBackground Bangladesh is one of the world’s largest garment exporters. Physical working conditions of garment workers are precarious and known to largely …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-14173-x

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Fashion and Mental Health: the Untold Story of Garment Workers

(4 days ago) WEBThis is the side of the fashion and beauty industries that is usually linked to mental health. However there is another more hidden side: the garment industry …

https://www.mindlessmag.com/post/fashion-and-mental-health-the-untold-story-of-garment-workers

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Women Garment Workers : Overworked, Underpaid, and Unwell

(2 days ago) WEBThe study also notes that 29% of the workers were underweight, while 18% were overweight. Sexual and Reproductive Health: Menstrual irregularities were …

https://cividep.org/occupational-health-women-garment-workers/

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Health of garment workers: Issues, challenges and opportunities

(8 days ago) WEBHealth of garment workers: Issues, challenges and opportunities. Bangladesh, along with many other developing countries, is rapidly industrialising and …

https://bdnews24.com/opinion/comment/health-of-garment-workers-issues-challenges-and-opportunities

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(PDF) Health problems among garment factory workers: A …

(6 days ago) WEBThe studies revealed that the major health problems among the garment workers were musculoskeletal disorder, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321025799_Health_problems_among_garment_factory_workers_A_narrative_literature_review

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Meet the Woman Pioneering Sustainable Change in Fashion

(9 days ago) WEBFor years, Maxine Bédat, the executive director of the New Standard Institute, has been leading the charge to revolutionize the fashion industry, aiming to …

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/04/23/pioneering-sustainable-change-in-fashion-in-new-york-and-around-the-world/

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Inclusive mental health for informal workers - The Lancet

(3 days ago) WEBWe read with great interest the Lancet Series paper on work-related mental health problems by Reiner Rugulies and colleagues.1 This Series paper was a wake …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00460-4/fulltext

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Americans are getting less sleep. The biggest burden falls on …

(9 days ago) WEBThe biggest burden falls on women : Shots - Health News A recent survey found that Americans' sleep patterns have been getting worse. Adult women under 50 …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/26/1247501573/women-sleep-sleepless-study-research-insomnia

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What the New Overtime Rule Means for Workers

(6 days ago) WEBThe Department of Labor’s new overtime regulation is restoring and extending this promise for millions more lower-paid salaried workers in the U.S. …

https://blog.dol.gov/2024/04/23/what-the-new-overtime-rule-means-for-workers

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Garment workers in Bangladesh need justice - Amnesty International

(7 days ago) WEBThey expose the human cost of systemic lack of regulation of corporate activities and the desperate need for improved occupational health and safety in line …

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/bangladesh-garment-workers-must-receive-rights-based-compensation-and-justice-immediately/

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Nail Salon Workers’ Reproductive Health Crisis Exposed in New …

(Just Now) WEBThe coalition surveyed 312 women nail salon workers in New York between June 2022 and March 2024 and found that the workers had a higher prevalence of …

https://documentedny.com/2024/04/30/nail-salon-workers-ventilation-miscarriages/

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Biden-Harris Administration Takes Historic Action to Increase …

(5 days ago) WEBThe Biden-Harris Administration is committed to bolstering the health care workforce and ensuring the contributions of workers across the long-term care sector …

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/04/22/biden-harris-administration-takes-historic-action-increase-access-quality-care-support-families-care-workers.html

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Fact Sheet on FTC’s Proposed Final Noncompete Rule

(6 days ago) WEBSpecifically, the final rule defines the term “senior executive” to refer to workers earning more than $151,164 annually who are in a “policy-making position.” …

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/fact-sheet-ftcs-proposed-final-noncompete-rule

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Celebrate Labor History This Jewish American Heritage Month

(8 days ago) WEBThe worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.” Jewish workers were early pioneers in the social unionism movement. In the big garment unions and …

https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/tools-tips/celebrate-labor-history-jewish-american-heritage-month

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Business Roundtable announces new mental health initiative

(1 days ago) WEBIn 2022, Gallup estimated that workers’ mental health issues cost the U.S. economy $47.6 billion annually in lost productivity alone, and four in 10 U.S. workers …

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/business-roundtable-announces-mental-health-initiative-benefit-uptake/

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Health Worker Migration Raises Fairness and Training Issues

(5 days ago) WEBMoreover, the reliance on foreign-trained workers masks underlying systemic issues within the U.S. education and training pipeline, including shortages of residency …

https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/growing-health-worker-migration-to-the-u-s-and-u-k-raises-fairness-and-training-issues/

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