<div> <p>The Supreme Court has overturned a lower court verdict and ordered a retrial in a labour dispute between a textile company and workers who were allegedly not properly compensated.</p> <p>On 23 May 2017, at the Labour Court Region 5 in Chiang Mai, the judges read the Supreme Court verdict on the case between Georgie &amp; Lou Co. Ltd., a textile company producing clothes under the brands Neon Buddha and Pure HANDKNIT, and 24 of its former employees. &nbsp;</p> </div>

<p>A labour union in northern Thailand has urged the authorities to take legal action to force a textile company to compensate workers for suspending operations. &nbsp;</p> <p>On 13 August 2015, representatives of the Textile Labour Union in the northern province of Chiang Mai came to the provincial Damrong Tham Centre, set up under the Interior Ministry to receive complaints, to talk to the Governor of Chiang Mai.</p>