Base Textiles

Base Textiles ceased operations without paying employees $325,000 in legally required wages, severance, and other benefits. The WRC’s investigation found that factory management stopped paying workers their wages on time and then unlawfully pressured workers to resign, so it could avoid paying them legally mandated severance after the factory closed.

After the WRC communicated our findings concerning the factory’s violations of Bangladeshi law and university codes of conduct to Cutter & Buck, Cutter & Buck agreed to provide workers the full amount they legally earned. The WRC then worked with both the country’s garment manufacturers’ association, the BGMEA, and the Bangladesh Independent Garment Union Federation to distribute the funds Cutter & Buck contributed to the workers. In March 2025, more than 700 workers each received an average of four months’ wages in severance that had gone unpaid since the factory closed.

Read More:

• $325,000 in Back Pay Secured at Collegiate Factory in Bangladesh – July 11, 2024
• WRC Delivers Back Pay to Collegiate Apparel Workers in Bangladesh – March 20, 2025