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Clean Clothes Campaign reprimands H&M over false wage claims

A new report titled ‘H&M: fair living wages were promised, poverty wages are the reality’ from Clean Clothes Campaign states many garment workers manufacturing clothes for the brand live below the poverty line – despite its promise of a living wage by 2018. The report focuses on poor wages, excessive overtime and workplace faintings in the brand’s factories.

According to the new study, garment workers at H&M in India and Turkey earn about a third – and in Cambodia less than half – of the estimated living wage. In Bulgaria interviewed workers’ salary is less than 10 per cent of a living wage.

Overtime hours in three out of the six researched factories often exceed the legal maximum, and in Bulgaria workers reported that they have to work overtime just to earn the statutory minimum wage.

As reported by Ecotextile News, H&M’s combined figures claimed its “fair living strategy” now reaches 655 factories employing more than 930,000 garment workers, up from three factories in 2013.

 

 
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