H & M accused of slave operation. Now they answer your questions Online Meeting with … – kjendis.no

(Dagbladet): For a long time large clothing chains been criticized for the working conditions in the textile factories where their clothes are produced – particularly the textile factories are located in Cambodia and Bangladesh.

The Swedish clothing chain H & amp; M has not escaped criticism. Recent critical voice in the row, the 18-year-olds Frida Ottesen and Anniken Jørgensen.

The two visited Cambodia when they recorded webcast series “sweatshop”. They were not even in some of the factories where H & amp; Ms. cloth produced, but say they have talked with several factory workers who claimed to make clothes for the Swedish chain.

After going to attack H & amp; M, and hence also aroused attention outside Norway, met the girls Tuesday three key players in H & amp; M Norway, and asked what they wanted out of question.

Now you can ask H & amp; M what ever you may be wondering, when it comes to the production of garments and accessories abroad, factory workers working conditions and wages, and

Chain giant answers readers’ questions at 12:30. Submit your question already now by taking advantage of the box on the right in this case.

H & amp; M does not own any factories, but get his clothes provided by some 900 independent contractors – primarily in Asia and Europe. In Cambodia have clothing chain 75 suppliers.

In the 90′s it was H & amp; M accused of child labor, and to pay a little scary. Two years ago awakened a Swedish documentary, where it was claimed that H & amp; M paid slave wages to their factory workers in Cambodia and Bangladesh, stir.

In the documentary “Kalla facts” revealed that the workers in the two countries had an hourly rate of between two and three million. It was also claimed that they have to work 70-80 hours a week, and that abeidsforholdene at some factories are so bad that workers pass out.

– We have strict minimum requirements for factories, and did not meet the will we do not work with them. And then we have additional requirements. If these do not meet, get plants a note, and a list of what needs to be improved so that we could work with them. Then they have to set up an action plan showing how they will meet the requirements and when, step by step, in the course of two years, said Jonah Wigerhåll H & amp; M Dagbladet earlier this week.

H & amp; M Norwegian press officer Kristin Fjeld and communications director Vibeke Holann answer your questions at 12:30 today.