Missguided founder Nitin Passi stepped down as its CEO in April, was rehired for the position in June after the failed company was bought out of administration by Frasers Group, but then was replaced again in August
Shein subsequently admitted that workers’ shifts were longer than rules allowed and set up a whistleblowing system to help uncover more breaches, though itShein’s range of Rolling Stones products that had to be removed from sale Warehouses that distribute parcels of clothes to customers also came under the spotlight. Workers inside a Boohoo order fulfillment centre in Burnley complained ofas a “picker” in temperatures of 32°C, even when it was just 19° outside.
The company has been trying to restore its reputation after the scandal of 2020 in Leicester, where conditions in factories supplying the brand were found to pose “Problems remain in Leicester to this day, however. In July, the Low Pay Commission warned ofcontinuing in the city’s garment sector, facilitating benefit fraud and tax evasion.
Nevertheless, she believes a “climate for change” is developing around the world. She hopes new laws in the EU and US will lead to worldwide improvements in regulators and consumers verifying sustainability claims., a lecturer in human resource management and employment law at the University of Salford, finds it harder to be optimistic about a clampdown on labour abuse in the UK’s clothes sector.