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UK clothing manufacturers fined 90,000 pounds for underpaying staff

UK-based garment factory owners have been forced to pay almost 90,000 pounds for non-payment of minimum wage, new data from HMRC shows. Since 2012, an average of 900 pounds has been paid out to 126 factory workers. The figures show that more than 1,350 pounds has been paid in wage arrears to 10 workers following HMRC investigations into the...

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Concerns raised against criminal charges against victims of Bangladesh boiler explosion

Labor Rights Groups have raised concerns after news emerged that local authorities in Bangladesh had filed a criminal complaint against ten people following the boiler explosion at the Multifabs garment factory in Bangladesh on July 3. The criminal complaint accuses ten unnamed workers involved in the accident of negligence of duty, injury, and...

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13 people charged following boiler explosion in garment factory

London - 13 people have been charged with a number of offences ranging from negligence to murder following a boiler explosion in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh killed 13 people and injured 50 more, said police officials on Wednesday. Police are said to have linked the incident to three boiler operators who died in the explosion on...