Monsoon, the fashion chain that pioneered ethical shopping, has used suppliers in India who employ child labour and pay workers below the minimum wage...Internal documents...highlight the scale of the problems over issues ranging from child labour to failure to pay the minimum wage, excessive working hours and harsh or inhumane treatment of staff...A report last year by Ethical Consumer magazine ranked the company as the most ethical on the UK high street, one place above Marks & Spencer...Monsoon is also a leading light in the Ethical Trading Initiative...Despite the serious problems exposed by its own findings, Monsoon insists it has a "long-lasting and passionate commitment to ethical trade"...It also points out that it is the only manufacturer to make public some of its own investigations into its suppliers and it insists it is right to try to work with those suppliers to improve conditions for workers, rather than sacking them.