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Garment industry reliance on social auditors should end, law firm says

20/12/2022
Garment industry reliance on social auditors should end, law firm says

A UK-based lawyer who is representing 130 garment workers from Asia in what could become a landmark court case has said social auditing in the clothing industry “is seriously broken”.

Legal firm Leigh Day sent a letter before action, the first step in legal proceedings, to UK-based retail group Tesco and to specialist auditing service provider Intertek in December. The law firm is representing garment workers from Myanmar who found work in a factory in Thailand that made garments for Tesco clothing brand F+F.

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