INDIA: Retailers probe supplier overtime issue
Author: Joe Ayling | 9 August 2010
Findings of excessive overtime at two garment factories in India have prompted clothing retailers Gap, Next and Marks & Spencer (M&S) to launch investigations in the country.
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