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Bloomberg
a day ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
LVMH's Loro Piana Faces Court Oversight in Italy Workplace Probe
By and Flavia Rotondi Save A Milan court placed Italian luxury label Loro Piana SpA under judicial oversight for one year, saying the LVMH -owned label famous for its cashmere clothing failed to stop subcontractors from exploiting migrant workers. In some Italian factories, working hours largely exceeded the 8-hour legal standard, employees slept on shop floors and were paid a fraction of Italy's legal minimum, prosecutors said, according to the ruling seen by Bloomberg News. The court also said that Loro Piana omitted due-diligence checks.
Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Newsom's Politically Dubious Defense of Pot Growers
Why does Gavin Newsom insist on playing into Donald Trump's hands? The California governor mounted a feckless response to the riots against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. Now he's standing up for marijuana growers who may have been exploiting illegal immigrant workers. Federal agents last week arrested more than 300 allegedly illegal immigrants at pot farms in the Santa Barbara area. The Homeland Security Department says Glass House Farms is under investigation for child-labor violations and 10 undocumented minors were found there. Glass House has a state license to grow marijuana and denies knowingly employing undocumented workers or minors.
