The Italian fashion house Loro Piana, owned by the French luxury giant LVMH, was put under “judicial administration” in Italy for “negligently facilitating” the exploitation of workers in the subcontractors, the carabinants announced on Monday.
In a statement, the riflers of the working conditions of the working conditions say that “they executed a decree of the Judicial Administration of the Court of Milan” against this Chamber, recognized by their puppy clothes, considered “unable to prevent and phenomena of operational work in the framework of production” of their collections.
Loro Piana is accused of “not having implemented adequate measures to verify the real working conditions (…) of the subcontracting companies.”
The judges of the Milan Court believe that the management of Loro Piana “easily facilitated” the exploitation of labor, due to a “generalized deficiency of organizations models and a defective internal audit system.”
Chinese workers
According to the researchers, the house trusted a company without any productive capacity, which in itself resorted to another company, which in turn requested workshops that employ Chinese workers in Italy to reduce their costs.
In these workshops, workers were used in an irregular situation without respecting health and safety legislation in the workplace, particularly for “salaries, working hours, breaks and vacations.”
The investigation began last May after the complaint of a Chinese worker who went to tobacco for his boss because he demanded the payment of his salaries.
The riflers found that the workers were housed in “bedrooms built incorrectly and under hygienic and health conditions below the ethical minimum.”
Two owners of Chinese national workshops were referred to justice for the exploitation of work, as well as two Italians for violations of health and safety standards in the workplace. Seven workers without stay titles were also sent to justice.
The court also inflicted fines of more than 181,000 euros and administrative sanctions of more than 59,750 euros.
The activities of two Chinese workshops were also suspended “for serious security violations and the use of black work.”
Armani also set
Loro Piana had been bought by LVMH in 2013. The current president of the company is Antoine Arnault, eldest son of Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH, including another son, Frédéric, is general director of this Italian subsidiary.
Several prestigious fashion houses, including Armani, have already been set by Italian justice in similar cases.
The Italian competition authority thus forced the Luxury Dior brand in May, also belonging to LVMH, to pay two million euros in assistance to “operational victims” in the context of a survey on the working conditions of its subcontractors.
Contacted by AFP, neither Loro Piana nor LVMH could react immediately.
Source: BFM TV
