PRATO, Italy/GENEVA (Reuters) - 'Made in Italy: shame in Italy,' a handful of migrant labourers who had travelled from Italy's famed leatherware region...
PRATO, Italy /GENEVA - "Made in Italy : shame in Italy ," a handful of migrant labourers who had travelled from Italy 's famed leatherware region Tuscany chanted last week in Geneva outside the flagship store of luxury accessory maker Montblanc , holding placards with the slogan.
Z Production did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Montblanc said, in a statement to Reuters, it had decided to terminate Z Production's contract in early 2023 because its audits showed the contractor had failed to meet its standards as outlined in Richemont's code of conduct for suppliers.
"I left at 6 PM, but everyone else stayed on," he told Reuters, saying that most of the workers there were either from China, Pakistan or Bangladesh as the company sought to cut costs. "It's very common here in Tuscany. It's the big brands that impose the prices on contractors". In April, the Armani group said it had "always had control and prevention measures in place to minimise abuses in the supply chain." Alviero Martini said this month it was unaware of the unauthorised subcontracting and of the exploitation of workers.
Abbas, 32, who was a welder in Pakistan and arrived in Italy through the Balkans in 2015, said he started off at a Chinese-run workshop in Incisa Valdarno, a well-known leather-working district near Florence, while lacking a worker's permit. Abbas told Reuters he earned between 600 and 700 euros a month from a part-time contract, and between 400 and 500 euros in cash for additional hours. Francesca Ciuffi, an official from union SUDD Cobas who helped organise the Geneva protest, said such practices are still common at workshops in Prato.
"When you work more than 12 hours a day for six days a week, you don't even have time to do the shopping, you don't have time to wash your clothes." Keeping tabs on what happens inside the sprawling luxury supply chain in Italy is challenging. The country accounts for between 50% and 55% of the global high-end goods production according to consultancy Bain.
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