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Article

13 Apr 2010

Author:
Jürg Rupp, Executive Editor

The Rupp Report: Ethics In Garment Production

...The German retail chain Lidl has come under pressure after NGOs published reports that some of Lidl's contractors are not working in accordance with their customer's commitment...European Center for Constitutional and Humans Rights (ECCHR) and the Clean Clothes Campaign network examined several Lidl subcontractors in Bangladesh. The results are alarming: The employees, predominantly women, complain that they must do overtime regularly, and this overtime often is not paid...The German retailer responded that since 2006, Lidl itself has checked the working conditions of the subcontractors through 7,500 examinations and 28,000 further examinations by external testing institutes. However, the result was that "some necessary improvement measures in the areas of the wages and the worker's security should be made,"...

Part of the following timelines

Germany: NGOs file consumer complaint against Lidl over working conditions in its Bangladeshi textile suppliers

Lidl lawsuit (re working conditions in Bangladesh)

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