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Article

16 Oct 2012

Author:
Hanna Claeson, Intl. Labour Rights Forum

H&M: Hypocrisy & Minimum wage [Bangladesh]

…H&M’s CEO, Karl-Johan Persson…sat down with Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Sheik Hasina, and kindly asked her to raise the minimum wage…just weeks after Persson met with the president asking for a minimum wage increase, he announced...that H&M plans to double its purchases from Bangladesh in the next five years…regardless of whether or not the minimum wage is raised…H&M is notorious for breaking their code of conduct that set standards for working conditions...