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Apparel Factory Workers Were Cheated, State Says

It was one of the worst sweatshops that state inspectors have visited in years, they said, sometimes requiring its 100 employees to work seven days a week, sometimes for months in a row. The factory, in Queens - which made women's apparel for Banana Republic, the Gap, Macy's, Urban Apparel and Victoria's Secret - handed out instructions to its workers telling them to give false answers about working conditions when government inspectors visited.

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