Online fashion retailer Boohoo plans to sign the new International Accord Agreement for Health and Safety announced in August to make retailers liable for legal action in case their factories in Bangladesh do not meet labor safety standards. The agreement has already been signed by the company's European rivals H&M and Inditex-owned Zara. It replaced the earlier Bangladesh Accord, which was struck in the aftermath of a building collapse in 2013 that killed more than 1,100 garment workers in the south Asian country.

The news comes a year after Boohoo accepted all recommendations of an independent review that found major failings in its supply chain in England after newspaper allegations about working conditions and low pay in factories in the Leicester area. The fast fashion giant has made moves to improve problems its supply chain in recent months and to make itself more transparent to consumers Boohoo recently published a list of international factories detailing around 1,100 factories, following instruction from an independent review produced by Alison Levitt QC. It hit headlines for all the wrong reasons last year after media reports said factory workers in Leicester were being underpaid and not protected against Covid-19.

Boohoo appointed Alison Levitt QC to look into the supply chain allegations, who found they were substantially true, despite an initial denial from the firm.