Factory workers making clothes in Bangladesh for high street chains and supermarkets are being locked in and forced to work nineteen hour shifts, a BBC Panorama investigation has claimed.
In its documentary 'Dying for a Bargain', to be broadcast this evening, workers at factories making the budget supermarket chain Lidl said they were locked in at night and forced to work as many as 21 hours in one shift. One worker said he had been paid just £2 for 19 hours' work.
Their allegations have emerged less than six months after more that 1100 workers making clothes for Primark and other chains were killed when their Dhaka factory building collapsed. They indicate that despite the scandal of the collapse, British high street bargains are still being made at the expense of basic rights in Bangladesh.
The Rana Plaza Building, in which a number of factories made cheap clothes for Primark, Matalan, Bonmarche and others, collapsed after the owners ignored warnings that the illegal structure was dangerous. Its workers were warned their pay would be docked if they refused to go back inside after inspectors ordered the owners to evacuate the building. Full story...
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In its documentary 'Dying for a Bargain', to be broadcast this evening, workers at factories making the budget supermarket chain Lidl said they were locked in at night and forced to work as many as 21 hours in one shift. One worker said he had been paid just £2 for 19 hours' work.
Their allegations have emerged less than six months after more that 1100 workers making clothes for Primark and other chains were killed when their Dhaka factory building collapsed. They indicate that despite the scandal of the collapse, British high street bargains are still being made at the expense of basic rights in Bangladesh.
The Rana Plaza Building, in which a number of factories made cheap clothes for Primark, Matalan, Bonmarche and others, collapsed after the owners ignored warnings that the illegal structure was dangerous. Its workers were warned their pay would be docked if they refused to go back inside after inspectors ordered the owners to evacuate the building. Full story...
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