• There are reports that Asos are forcing workers to work at crowded warehouses
• But, Barnsley Council visited the warehouse and found everything in order, adding 'reports of 3 ambulances visiting the site...have proved to be false'

Anonymous feedback:
"They are not allowing staff to wear masks as it's not part of the uniform"

Thanks to: @DonnaWalkerBN and others

Arcadia, who own Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, and Evans & Burton have:

• Shut stores on 20th March, but paid employees in full for the month
• Ended fixed-term contracts early, with four weeks notice
• allegedly not paid sick pay or redundancy for workers
• It's unknown if they will apply for the 80% Government fund to cover wages
• Stopped paying into employee pensions
• The group are cancelling contracts with suppliers, paying 70% of the total value if the goods are already in transit

Thanks to: Chris Burl and others

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• Barbour has made thousands of gowns to donate to the NHS 

• Burberry is manufacturing and delivering over 100,000 surgical masks to the NHS
• Senior leaders and directors are taking a 20% pay cut from April through June. Their cut is being donated to charitable causes
  

• Edinburgh Woollen Mill have made over 100 redundancies days before the Government furlough scheme was announced
• They refused to rehire those staff on the furlough scheme
• Staff who were not affected are being paid 80% of their wages
• The company has demanded steep discounts from suppliers, only paying part of invoices

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• Louis Vuitton reopens their workshop to make PPE masks and gowns

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• People are calling for their warehouse to close, but the company deny there are any issues

• Primark has donated 74,000 items to NHS works and patients, and over 100,000 easter food items to hospitals and shelters internationally
• Primark has announced they are cancelling orders, and have set up a fund to pay workers in Bangladesh factories after criticism
• The chain is withholding £33 million in rent on its stores
• Primark Bosses have taken a 50% pay cut, with 20-30% in pay reductions for its senior management team
• ‍Employees in their head office face a 10% pay cut, and will be furloughed
• After stores closed, employees received at least 2 weeks on full pay before being furloughed

Thanks to everyone who got in touch about Primark.

• Reiss has donated 10,000 face masks and 900 scrubs to the NHS

Do you have info about the environment in Reiss' warehouses? Please get in touch if you can provide information from a verifiable source.

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• After the government ordered all UK shops selling non-essential goods to close, Sports Direct said it would remain open as it was 'uniquely well placed to help keep the UK as fit and healthy as possible'
• They later U-turned, but not before outrage on social media
• Staff on zero hours contracts won't be paid while the store closes
• They've hiked prices on sports equipment by 50%
• ‍Update: Mike Ashely has now issued an apology 'our entire fleet or lorries is at [the NHS'] disposal'
• The company has written to their suppliers demanding a 20% discount on outstanding invoices.

TK Maxx have:

• Donated all the remaining food in their stores to food banks and hospitals (this includes non-perishable items)
• Created a £1.7m programme to donate to local causes fighting COVID-19