DHAKA - Leading brands and retailers, including H&M, Inditex and Primark, have joined calls for a substantial increase in the minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh.
Members of the Action, Collaboration, Transformation (ACT) initiative have set out their support in a letter to the country's RMG (readymade garments) Minimum Wage Board.
Other signatories include ASOS, Bestseller, Big W, C&A, Cotton On Group, Esprit, G-Star Raw, Kmart, Lidl, New Look, Next, Pentland, PVH, Tchibo, Tesco and Zalando, as well as the IndustriALL global union.