Primark offers long-term compensation to Rana Plaza factory collapse victims

Source: Press Association

Press Association
theguardian.com, Thursday 24 October 2013 17.31 BST

The clothes retailer Primark has offered to compensate injured workers and relatives of those who died in the Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh.

Six months ago 1,129 workers were killed and about 2,500 injured when the garment factory building in Dhaka collapsed. The factory had been supplying high-street brands around the world.

Primark, owned by Associated British Foods, has offered to pay long-term compensation to the victims of the disaster or their families.

Five hundred and fifty workers at the supplier New Wave Bottoms, which had been making clothes for Primark, will be given a third short-term payment, believed to be three months' wages, while the long-term compensation is finalised.

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