Super Spinning Mills, which was blacklisted by Hennes & Mauritz AB of Sweden for violating core labour rights, on Tuesday, said it followed the labour laws of Tamil Nadu, and these are verified by the Labour Department.
Reacting to a Bloomberg report on the textile mill’s blacklisting following a study by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and the India Committee of the Netherlands, a company representative said, “We are denying the allegations of SOMO. We are following the labour laws of the land, and it is verified by the labour officials and we do not employ child labour. Our buyers are also conducting regular audits on our HR practices.” The research, which covered five spinning mills in Tamil Nadu, including Super Spinning Mills, concluded that several core labour rights are being violated in the spinning mills. It also says that “exploitative employment schemes and substandard working conditions remain widespread in the spinning industry.”
Super Spinning Mills, which exports nearly 25 per cent of the yarn produced, has 1.50 lakh spindles in two units in Tamil Nadu and two units in Andhra Pradesh, and produces coarse and fine count yarn. Its annual turnover is Rs.500 crore.
