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21 Nov 2016

Author:
Dominic Rushe, Guardian [USA]

Retail group approves Bangladesh factories as safety concerns persist, report finds

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An organisation backed by global retailers including Gap, Target and Walmart is giving passing grades to Bangladeshi factories that have yet to implement life-saving safety changes the retailers pledged to put in place following a deadly building collapse in 2013 that killed 1,137 people, according to a new report...The report concludes that in some cases, once firm deadlines for repairs and improvements set for 2014 and 2015 were scrapped to be replaced with a 2018 deadline that coincides with the end of the Alliance arrangement...The Alliance disputed the report’s findings, saying it relied on inaccurate and outdated information. James Moriarty, country director for the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, said he was “totally confident” that the factories would meet retailers’ standards by 2018, when the agreement ends.