Fast fashion retailer Shein has vowed to invest millions to improve standards after admitting there were labour abuses at its supplier factories.
Garment workers at factories in China are often working up to 18 hours a day, being paid as little as 3p per item, with no weekends and only one day off per month, a found.
Shein has promised to invest $15m (12.2m) to set up a whistleblowing system to allow workers at its contracted factories to anonymously submit complaints, feedback and suggestions via email, phone or WeChat, “to support our efforts in monitoring and managing compliance to our code of conduct and to uphold the labour rights of workers”.
Shein admitted workers had to work long hours but claimed “while these are significantly less than claimed in the documentary, they are still higher than local regulations permit”.
Labour abuses, highlighted by i, showed that workers at supplier factories were fined two thirds of their daily wage if they make a single mistake.
The , after i alerted the band to allegations of labour abuse in the Chinese company’s supply chain.
Shein denied other allegations involving factory working practices in the documentary after the findings of the investigations commissioned by the firm and carried out by independent experts at Intertek and TUVR.
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