Billion-dollar activewear brand Lululemon is the latest company to be implicated in the allegations of abuse of women workers in Bangladeshi factories.
A report found that female workers are subjected to physical and verbal abuse, and were commonly humiliated with sexual slurs from managers.
A pair of Lululemon leggings retails for about $120 in Australia — just a little less than the average worker in its Bangladeshi supply chain earns in a whole month.
Aruna Kashyap, senior counsel in the women's rights division at Human Rights Watch, said Lululemon should "use this opportunity to assess its own brand purchasing practices and see how conducive they are to promoting labour rights compliance in its supplier factories".
"Brands like Lululemon that profess to care about workers should track and report to its consumers about how many of its supplier factories have unionised workers,” Ms Kashyap said.
Lululemon said it has opened an investigation in response to the latest allegations, and said it currently has no orders placed with the factory in question.