Investigations have shown low wages, excessive hours and harassment of workers to have been commonplace in factories in Asia supplying George. Asda’s response to these criticisms has been to trumpet a showcase project to improve productivity in four Bangladeshi factories where it says workers’ pay and conditions have improved. However, an ActionAid investigation into these factories reveals that, far from demonstrating best practice, conditions for workers remain unacceptable, with poverty wages, unreasonable hours and physical abuse of workers still taking place. Read ActionAid's latest report on ASDA George by downloading the pdf below.
