{"id":16958,"date":"2020-04-07T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/07\/primark-announces-wage-fund-for-garment-workers"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:00:19","slug":"primark-announces-wage-fund-for-garment-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16958","title":{"rendered":"Primark announces wage fund for garment workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pledge comes in response to claims that order cancellations to minimise Covid-19 losses have hurt millions of workers in the developing world<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Primark, one of the UK\u2019s most popular retailers, has announced it will create a fund to help pay the wages of the millions of garment workers affected by its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/02\/fashion-brands-cancellations-of-24bn-orders-catastrophic-for-bangladesh\">decision to cancel tens of millions of pounds worth of clothing orders<\/a> from factories in developing countries across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge followed sustained criticism of the fashion retailer after data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmea.com.bd\/\">Bangladeshi and Garment Exporters Association<\/a> (BGMEA) revealed it had cancelled all orders already placed with suppliers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/07\/primark-announces-wage-fund-for-garment-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pledge comes in response to claims that order cancellations to minimise Covid-19 losses have hurt millions of workers in the developing worldCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrimark, one of the UK\u2019s most popular retailers, ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,1069,576,833,59,958,651,335,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-global-development","category-poverty","category-primark","category-retail-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958\/revisions\/16959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}