Today (July 6) you report on line that "fast-fashion business Boohoo is under growing pressure to investigate its supply chain after bosses admitted the firm had no idea some of its clothes were made in a "sweatshop" factory in Leicester." ("Boohoo shares sink after Leicester factory revelations", https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/07/06/boohoo-denies-knowing-poor-conditions-leicester-factory/ )
The company is reported to have said it was" not aware" that it was using the facility {…} it is alleged was paying staff illegally low wages and flouting safety measures.
If this is so, what were theses directors actually doing? Does Boohoo not deploy anyone on their board to be responsible for sustainability matters? Does the Boohoo head of procurement never visit the factories that make the products it sells? If not, why not?
Far from paying Boohoo senior management obscene multi-multi-million pound bonuses, these bosses should be removed, fined and banned from serving on any board for a decade. They are a disgrace.
We have had a public debate over slavery two centuries ago in far way Caribbean or the tobacco field of the Southern US.
The way these workers have been treated in Leicester, we seem to have the equivalent of modern day slavery right under out contemporary noses.
If this is so, what were theses directors actually doing? Does Boohoo not deploy anyone on their board to be responsible for sustainability matters? Does the Boohoo head of procurement never visit the factories that make the products it sells? If not, why not?
Far from paying Boohoo senior management obscene multi-multi-million pound bonuses, these bosses should be removed, fined and banned from serving on any board for a decade. They are a disgrace.
We have had a public debate over slavery two centuries ago in far way Caribbean or the tobacco field of the Southern US.
The way these workers have been treated in Leicester, we seem to have the equivalent of modern day slavery right under out contemporary noses.
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