Fainting link to Canadian cold
Women who had fainted in a poorly ventilated garment factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning were making winter coats to be sold at Walmart stores in Canada, it was revealed yesterday. Executives with Taiwanese-owned Heart Enterprise (Cambodia) Ltd also confirmed reports that employees had been working as many as four hours of overtime a day, six days a week, at the factory, in the capital’s Dangkor district. Walmart Canada has been informed of the fainting incident through the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories program, which monitors the factory, but executives from the massive retail chain have yet to contact Heart Enterprises about the incident, Heart Enterprise executives said.
