Reply #4: perhaps you might read this [View All]

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http://www.walmartwatch.com/bad/internal.cfm?subsection_id=110&internal_id=253

Globalizing Poverty Through The World Trade Organization

Bangladesh, Beximco factory--Young women making Wal-mart shirts forced to work from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week, 87 hours a week

Paid 9 to 20 cents and hour for 80 hours--lunch break is unpaid. And paid less than one-third the legal overtime rate

No health care--No maternity leave

Wal-Mart and Beximco are violating Bangladeshi labor law which sets the workweek at 48 hours and limits overtime to 12 hours a week, while also requiring overtime pay at double the standard hourly rate

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