The world’s third largest retailer, Metro Group—with outlets across Europe—is linked to horrific sweatshop abuses in Bangladesh. At the R.L. Denim factory [part of Jeans Express Limited], 650 mostly young women workers are routinely beaten, denied maternity leave and forced to work grueling hours while being shortchanged of their wages. Every single labor law in Bangladesh is violated at the factory…[Metro Group has indicated it will respond following completion of its investigation.]