NGO Says Clothing Giants Shirked Workers
A local legal aid NGO said yesterday that American retail giant Wal-Mart and Swedish clothing brand H&M have failed to take responsibility for a shuttered supplier factory in Phnom Penh that owes its workers up to $200,000 in unpaid severance payments. The Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), which is providing legal aid to about 200 workers from Phnom Penh’s Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory, said in a statement that the workers are owed months of severance payments, and Wal-Mart and H&M should fulfill their responsibilities to the unpaid workers. …
