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2 Mar 2013

Author:
Renee Dudle, Bloomberg

Wal-Mart and H&M Suppliers Pay Workers at Closed Cambodia Plant

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Suppliers to Wal-Mart...and Hennes & Mauritz...agreed...to pay about $145,000 in back wages and severance to about 160 workers at a Cambodian factory that closed in November, a labor activist involved in the deal said. The agreement, which followed a two-day hunger strike, was reached at a meeting...in Phnom Penh that included representatives from Wal-Mart, H&M and their suppliers, Saramax Apparel Group...and New Archid Garment Factory...said David Welsh, country director in Cambodia of Solidarity Center, a Washington-based international worker rights group...Kevin Gardner, a spokesman for Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday that the company was told the factory stopped doing business with Saramax in October.