Delayed Payment of Wages at Natural Wool, Bangladesh - 2025

Textile company Natural Wool Wears has been paying its employees' wages late for months. After the March wages were only paid on 22^nd April 2025 and then only partially, the workers walked off the job the next day.

The employer then paid full wages but closed the factory so that the employees no longer had access to the factory. Therefore they organised a protest on 26^th of April demanding to reopen the factory.

The Business Standard, which reported on the case, also said that in a discussion with the police and employees, the employer committed to paying wages between the 1st and 7th of the following month. The newspaper quotes one of the workers: "After the meeting, when the workers went home, outsiders beat up several workers. Instead of responding to the workers' demands, the owners closed the factory and blamed the workers. We want the factory to reopen immediately".

Natural Wool Wears Ltd is a supplier of a member brand of Partnership for Sustainable Textiles.

Basic Information

Case ID: 2025.008

Identification Number from Open Supply Hub (OS-ID): BD2019248GNKE39

Open Supply Hub Link

Affected Country: Bangladesh

Date of occurrence: 2025-04-26

Social Sector Risks concerned:

• Wages (Conventions Nr. 26 & 102 & 131 & 177 & 181; FAO)

Supplier Details

NATURAL GROUP
House-12. Lake Drive Road
Nikunja-1
Dhaka- 1229
Bangladesh Phone
+880241040460

Supplier Website: https://naturalgroup.org/

Production Site

NATURAL WOOL WEARS LTD.
49/3, Bangabandhu Road, Charabag, Gouripur
Ashulia,
Dhaka-1341
Bangladesh

Known certifications:

ZDHC

Source of information about certifications:
https://opensupplyhub.org/facilities/BD2019248GNKE39

Total number of workers/employees:
763 (according to OSH), >900 (according to Business Standard)

No gender specific information available.

Workers movement

No information about unions available.

No information about workers commitee available.

Business Relations

Further information about buyer's sources:

As Partnership for Sustainable Textiles added the supplier to the Open Supply Hub, there must be a member company sourcing from this supplier.

It is not known, whether at least one of the buyers has the duty to report according to the Supply Chain Act / CSDDD.

Follow up

Sources

Name of reporting organisation: The Business Standard

Source of information about the case:

https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/rmg/garment-workers-protest-ashulia-factory-closure-over-salary-disputes-1126531

Contributor: SÜDWIND