Factory workers in Sri Lanka are struggling to survive on basic wages… to produce clothes for leading British retailers... Even in the better factories supplying companies such as Marks & Spencer and Next, thousands of women work six days a week to take home a basic wage of less than £50 a month...Tony Nadaraja, chief executive of the Hirdaramani Group, a company that supplies Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Asda, said that the basic 8,000-8,500 rupees… was not a “living wage”… Workers at the Brandix Seeduwa plant, which produces M&S trousers, said their basic monthly salary… barely covered rent, food and clothes. Meeting other costs was difficult, they said, even though the factory provided… subsidised food and free medical care. [includes responses by Asda, Brandix, Marks & Spencer, Next, Tesco]