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Sports Direct employee turnover rate 3 times higher than average

Sports Direct's reputation has received yet another blow, as its annual report has shown the UK's largest sporting goods retailer struggles to hold onto staff. The retailer's staff turnover rate rose by more than three percentage points last year to 22 percent according to its annual report - a figure which is nearly three times higher than the...

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Uniqlo criticized for harsh working conditions in Chinese factories

Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo is under fire after Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) accused their suppliers in China of submitting employees to harsh working conditions. The organization previously investigated working conditions at two of the retailer's suppliers:...

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Report sheds light on appalling working conditions in spinning mills

Just when it seemed that the garment industry was on its way to becoming more responsible - with efforts by individual brands and retailers and the Bangladesh Accord and Alliance making progress - another jack-in-the-box jumps out of it, this time in the form of the very fabric clothes are made of. A new report looks at the situation at South...

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Manufacturing safety questioned in factory crash

A factory in Bangladesh that produces clothing for Matalan and Primark has collapsed, killing at least 70 people and causing injury to at least a further 200 workers. This is the latest tragic story in Bangladesh' clothing and production industry. The incident occurred when an eight story building on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka collapsed...