Factory for named brands slammed for faintings

Low wages and a lack of occupational health and safety measures led to a mass fainting on Tuesday at a Phnom Penh garment factory that produces clothes for well-known brands Wal-Mart, Target and Reebok, according to a statement released by the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) yesterday. About 60 workers were sent to the hospital on Tuesday morning after fainting at the Taiwanese-owned King First Industrial Co Ltd factory in Russei Keo district when they inhaled fumes from a newly laid floor, CLEC said…