Garment Workers Faint at H&M Clothing Plant

Thirty-four garment factory workers fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhnang province, making it the third time in a year that a mass fainting has occurred at the factory, workers said yesterday. … M&V International Manufacturing LTD. factory, which is a supplier to Swedish clothing brand H&M, experienced two incidents of mass fainting last August. Yin Nak, administration chief of M&V, said the factory has repeatedly instructed all workers to stay calm when someone faints. … Experts blamed a combination of poor diet, harsh working conditions and mass hysteria. Peou Sathea, director of the provincial labor department said that mass hysteria had caused the fainting at M&V, and he could find no irregularities with the factory’s conditions. …

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