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Police clash with garment factory workers in Bangladesh

Bangladesh police used rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas against thousands of garment factory workers this Wednesday, after they tried to block a road leading to Dhaka’s international airport on the fourth consecutive day of protests demanding an increase in the minimum wage. Yesterday, one worker was fatally shot and dozens of others...

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Black Friday for H&M: global protests for living wage during Cyber Week

Promises are great. If they are kept. Swedish fashion giant H&M promised on 23rd November 2013, five years ago after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building, in its “Roadmap towards a fair living wage” to have “pay structures in place to pay a fair living wage by 2018” to all its workers globally (at the time, around 850,000 people in 750...

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Amazon raises minimum wage to 15 US dollars for all US employees

Amazon is increasing its minimum wage to 15 US dollars an hour for all full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees in the United States, after a report by nonprofit organization New Food Economy exposed the e-tailer is one of the American companies with the most employees receiving SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps. In Arizona,...

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Bangladesh raises minimum wage for garment workers

The minimum wage for Bangladeshi garment workers will rise by 51 percent from December, the country’s Ministry for Labor and Employment is quoted by Reuters as saying. According to the news agency, the new minimum wage has been set at 8,000 taka (approximately 95 dollars) a month, up from 5,300 taka (63 US dollars). The last time garment workers...

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California minimum wage increase for retail works goes into effect for 2017

Last year, minimum wage was approved to increase up to 15 dollars per hour in the upcoming years for Los Angeles workers. The complete effect will not be until 2020, but as 2017 marks two years after the vote passage, the retail industry will be affected by the new wage. Effective January 1, the minimum wage will now be 10.50 dollars an hour,...

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Ross Stores' key supplier ordered to pay 212,000 dollars in minimum wage labor fines

Los Angeles - Ross Stores’ manufacturer for the Los Angeles area recently was ordered to pay back a wage sum of 212,000 dollars for its employees. The Department of Labor ordered the apparel company to pay the wages due to a lack of paying workers fairly in the past. YN Apparel, California-based supplier for Ross Stores, was ordered by the...

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Cambodia: minimum wage for garment workers reaches 140 US dollars

Smiling faces among Cambodian garment workers: After tense negotiations by textile unions, the Cambodian government agreed to raise the minimum wage for garment workers by almost 10 percent to 140 US dollars a month from 2016. This is still short of union demands, which had initially asked for 177 US dollars per month and then came down to 160...

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Cambodia: garment workers to earn 128 dollars per month

The Cambodian government announced a few days ago that the minimum wage of garment workers would be raised to 128 US dollars per month starting from 1st January 2015. Though the new wage is higher than the 123 US dollars suggested by the Labour Advisory Committee, it is significantly lower than the 160 US dollars a month demanded by trade unions...