Beyoncé’s activewear collection, Ivy Park, was accused by UK paper The Sun of running a sweatshop in a factory in Sri Lanka, owned by MAS Holdings.
A 22-year-old seamstress unveiled work conditions to The Sun on May 15 saying workers are mostly young women from poor villages working more than 60 hours a week. They also live in boarding houses, she said, because that’s what they can afford, since they earn as little as $6.17 a day for making gear that sells from $25 to $235 a piece.
According to Women’s Wear Daily, the minimum daily wage in Sri Lanka is $2.68, therefore, laborers are making more than double for a day’s work.
Still, the seamstress and other laborers, are not too pleased with the set-up.
“All we do is work, sleep, work, sleep,” she told The Sun—anonymously, fearing that she'll be fired if she reveals herself. According to The Telegraph reports, the sweatshop employs 74,000 workers in 48 factories across Asia.
