Forced-labour watchdog opens probe against Guess over possible Uyghur slave labour

Open this photo in gallery: Sheri Meyerhoffer, the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, holds a news conference in Ottawa on July 11.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Canada's corporate watchdog is launching a probe against the company Guess over possible ties to Uyghur forced labour in China. The ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, Sheri Meyerhoffer, says the company has not done enough to prove that it has no supply relationships with Chinese companies that source materials from factories that employ people being forced to work. Guess GES-N disputes this claim, arguing Meyerhoffer lacks credible evidence and that the three Chinese companies she names…