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Public Eye, a human rights advocacy group based in Switzerland, blasted Chinese fashion giant Shein for demanding excessive overtime from its workers in a 2021 report.
The Swiss advocacy group was referring to Shein’s “fast fashion” business model, which offers customers a huge online inventory of clothing items at extremely low prices. The system works by taking advantage of extremely low shipping rates to send parcels directly to customers around the world, rather than paying for warehouses and distribution centers in different countries.
The interviewees said wages had not improved much either, with the average textile worker making between 6,000 and 10,000 yuan per month The higher end of that scale is usually paid to middle-aged workers who have years of experience with specialized skills. The company felt enough pressure to promise improvements and, in 2022, it commissioned a “Supplier Factory Wage Investigation Audit” that supposedly found work requirements had grown more reasonable in Chinese factories, bringing wages up to “above average” levels.
Investigators found Shein making “stringent demands” of its Chinese employees far beyond the factory floor, such as heavy demands on photographers, editors, and models to keep its ever-changing website updated with a swarm of new items every week.
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