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Wage Theft / Settlement

26 May 2022

5 minutes

A total of 1,388 workers were fired without notice in March 2021 at the Brilliant Alliance Thai Global (BAT) factory, which supplied lingerie brands Victoria’s Secret, Torrid and Lane Bryant, suddenly closed shop, using the pandemic and a lack of orders as ostensible reasons.

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