NEW LEGISLATION IN FORCE TO CURB LABOUR RIGHTS ABUSES IN MAURITIAN APPAREL SECTOR
March 18th, 2024
The Mauritius clothing and textile industry, as well as its government, hopes that new worker rights legislation will bring order to the recruitment of foreign labourers, while protecting their rights. This Private Recruitment Agencies Act (1) came in force in October 2023, being designed to consolidating and strengthening the legal framework regarding the employment of foreign workers in Mauritius. The law came into force before the December (2023) publication of a report by Transparentem, a US-based labour rights NGO that criticised the treatment of foreign ...
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