Labour Behind the Label: new report on living wage for garment workers
Categories: Articles:Human Rights |
Published: 15/02/2016 |
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Labour Behind the Label's new report, shows that despite M&S's commitment to ensure suppliers would be able to pay a living wage to workers by 2015, workers in all of their main production countries continue to live in poverty. (Sarah Butler, theguardian.com)
Workers making clothes for Marks & Spencer in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India are still not being paid sufficiently, six years after the retailer promised to support the payment of a living wage in those countries. Under the British chain’s Plan A environmental and social policy, it promised to “implement a process to ensure our suppliers are able to pay workers a fair living wage” in the three south Asian countries. M&S said its target was achieved in 2015. But a report by the workers’ rights group Labour Behind the Label said workers from three factories in Sri Lanka, another three in India, and two in Bangladesh were all being paid well below the amount required for a decent standard of living. Read more here
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