GUCCI Is Known As Sweatshop &Nbsp; Luxury Brands Exploit Chinese Employees.

Shenzhen flagship store, Italy's luxury brand GUCCI, was recently accused of abusing employees with harsh regulations and even leading to the abortion of pregnant women. This is not the first time such a brand known as "fashion" and "luxury" has been so criticized.

Former employees said GUCCI Shenzhen flagship store had caused abortion.

According to the Guangzhou new express October 8th, in September of this year, 5 employees who had worked in GUCCI flagship store in Shenzhen issued a "Gucci resignation" to the top management of Gucci. open letter " In the letter, they expressed their accusations against the GUCCI flagship store in Shenzhen.

According to the report, the staff said that the GUCCI company had more than 100 regulations on the behavior of the employees when they went to work in the store, many regulations strictly restricted the physiological needs of the employees, and even had to apply to the higher authorities for drinking water. The toilet must also be licensed, and the time for the toilet was strictly limited to 5 minutes. A resignation worker said that during pregnancy, she worked normally and had to stand for more than ten hours a day, and the company executives were not allowed to eat in the shop to supplement their nutrition. The employee revealed that a pregnant colleague was aborted. In a report, a GUCCI flagship store manager who asked not to be named said that the contents of the open letter were true, and even that some cases were more serious than those in the open letter. In the GUCCI flagship store, there are more than one case of miscarriage.

In addition, there are on-the-job employees who say that once the store is missing, all employees are required to compensate for the loss and the average cost will be borne according to the original price of the lost goods. The employee said that the products of the company were insured, and the company could get them on the one hand. Insurance compensation On the other hand, employees should be equally apportioned and collectively deducted money supply companies.

Under the GUCCI, "password" is alleged to infringe on consumers' right to know.

It is reported that after the "sweatshop" incident was exposed, GUCCI sent an email to the staff to "respond to the media customers' unannounced visits", providing some simple standard answers for the staff to answer the questions of the media customers. Most of the answers are "this problem belongs to the company." internal information "Do not answer, please understand", and ask customers to leave the matter after reporting to the operation Department.

According to a GUCCI flagship store manager, the company's main requirement is to prevent media reporters from speaking at their workers' work. At the same time, in order to prevent customers from coming to inquire about goods disputes, they can prevent employees from being stolen to record videos that are not conducive to the company. The resignation employee's attorney said that the mailing staff refused to ask any questions from customers or the media with the company's internal information, and also included questions about quality, which obviously had the suspicion of violating the right of consumers to know.

GUCCI has repeatedly been accused of sweating factory luxury brands repeatedly exploiting Chinese employees.

This is not the first time GUCCI has been described as a sweatshop. As early as February 2008, the Losangeles Times reported that several luxury brands, including GUCCI, employed a large number of Chinese laborers in the factories in Tuscany, Italy, and only paid them very low wages, and the working environment was very bad. These thousands of dollars worth of luxury goods were produced in such an environment. The term used in the report is "Slaving".

In April 2010, a netizen posted on Tianya forum as an employee of GUCCI. It said that the franchise store of GUCCI Shanghai, Pudong and Lujiazui in the short 20 days forced the employees to work for 185 hours (one hour per day was removed), and 3 weeks less than 60 hours, which seriously violated the provisions of the labor law. At the same time, the netizen also said that GUCCI had installed monitoring probes in the staff dressing room, which seriously violated the employee's human rights and citizen's privacy.