Last Updated: 2019.01.25
Progress with Working Hours Improvements at UNIQLO Production Partner Pacific Textiles in China
FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.
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Fast Retailing and Chinese production partner Pacific (Panyu) Textiles Limited jointly formulated and implemented plans that improved working conditions at the latter's factory, as described below. These efforts were in response to issues highlighted in reports by Hong Kong advocacy group Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour in January 2015 and by London-based registered charity, War on Want, in October 2016.
These reports noted long work hours at the factory, which had set a working week target of 63 hours over the medium term and endeavored to match Fast Retailing's working week target of no more than 60 hours over the long term.
Over the period of July-December 2018, an average of over 90% of employees worked less than 60 hours per week.
The factory undertook the following four key initiatives to improve working hours:
1. Improved production planning techniques to reduce wasted time by planning more precisely
2. Upgraded manufacturing machinery to increase productivity
3. Better managed working hours and raised in-house awareness of that effort
4. Increased base salaries to maintain employee incomes as working hours went down
The factory has either already resolved other reported issues or has agreed to do so. See Fast Retailing's March 2018 announcement for details.
Progress on Improving Conditions at Pacific UNIQLO Production Partner in China (March 30, 2018)
The Fast Retailing Group remains committed to encouraging working environment improvements across its entire supply chain.
