Back Pay Means Holiday Cheer for Haitian Workers

Here is a new WRC case brief reporting our successful remediation of university code of conduct violations at a factory in Haiti. These are the key points:

• The US apparel company, Champro—a collegiate apparel supplier to nearly a dozen licensees (see our case brief for a full list)—was the largest buyer from the Fairway Apparel factory in Haiti.
• The WRC found the factory failed to pay $155,000 in legally owed severance when it closed, depriving nearly half its 500 workers of five months’ pay.
• The WRC worked with licensees to get Champro to pay everything workers are owed. 
• Half these funds have already been paid to workers. The remainder will be distributed starting this week.
• This will enable these workers to pay for adequate food, housing, medicine, and school fees for children.

Haitian workers face dire circumstances. These funds will bring some holiday cheer at a crucial time for workers’ families.

The WRC has now secured nearly $16 million in back pay for workers in 2025, the majority at collegiate factories. Without the WRC’s interventions this year, 6,000 workers at 11 factories would never have been paid the money they legally earned making university logo goods.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions.