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12 Oct 2014

Auteur:
Miles Brignall, Guardian

Fashion retailers agree to raise minimum wage in Cambodia

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Eight leading fashion retailers have said they are prepared to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia, days after thousands of workers took to the streets of Phnom Penh to call for the minimum wage there to be nearly doubled to $177 (£110) a month. The brands, which include one of Cambodia's biggest buyers, H&M, as well as Inditex, owner of Zara, and Britain's Primark, have written to the Cambodian deputy prime minister and the chairman of the local Garment Manufacturers Association to say they were "ready to factor higher wages" into their pricing…The big-name companies, which have been joined by Next, New Look, C&A and N Brown Group, a home-shopping firm, said in the letter that they wanted to see "more cooperation with trade unions in the workplace"…