“Everybody was lauding M&S as having achieved something great, but when we checked it out, there hasn’t been an effect,” she said. A report by workers’ rights group Labour Behind the Label has said that workers producing clothes for Marks & Spencer (M&S) 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 company’s Plan A environmental and social policy, it promised to ensure supliers paid a fair living wage in the three south Asian countries. The report, which was released on Tuesday, says that despite promises made at the time, only about half of these companies have done so. However, the report claims that 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.
A report by workers’ rights group Labour Behind the Label has said that workers producing clothes for Marks & Spencer (M&S) 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 company’s Plan A environmental and social policy, it promised to ensure supliers paid a fair living wage in the three south Asian countries. The report, which was released on Tuesday, says that despite promises made at the time, only about half of these companies have done so. However, the report claims that 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.