NAIROBI - Ethiopia's clothes factory workers, producing items for top fashion brands including Guess, H&M and Calvin Klein, are the worst paid in the world, earning only $26 a month, a report said Tu
NAIROBI - Ethiopia's clothes factory workers, producing items for top fashion brands including Guess, H&M and Calvin Klein, are the worst paid in the world, earning only $26 a month, a report said Tuesday.
The report, entitled Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier, said that in comparison, notoriously poorly-paid workers in Bangladesh earned $95."Rather than the compliant, cheap workforce promoted in Ethiopia, the foreign-based suppliers have encountered employees who are unhappy with their compensation and living conditions and increasingly willing to protest by stopping work or even quitting," said Paul Barrett, the centre's deputy director.
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