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The youngest worker canadian goose jacket was 15 years old and he was working more than 12 hours a canada goose jacket outlet day ironing clothes before they were shipped to the UK.
A spokesperson for Marks and Spencer said the programme’s findings were “extremely serious” and “unacceptable canada goose outlet uk to M It is offering permanent Canada Goose online legal employment to any Syrians who were employed in the official canada goose outlet factory.
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But critics canada goose say the retailers canada goose outlet reviews are not doing enough to stop the problems highlighted by Panorama.
Danielle McMullan, from the Business Human Rights Resource Centre, says the brands need to understand that they are responsible: “It’s canada goose outlet online uk not enough to buy canada goose jacket cheap say we didn’t know about this, it’s not our fault.
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But Turkey is a challenging place to do business. Concerns are rising about the exploitation of workers after the arrival of almost three million Syrian refugees.
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Panorama reporter Darragh MacIntyre spoke to dozens of Syrian workers who felt they were being exploited. He said: “They speak of pitiful wages and terrible working conditions. They know https://www.officialcanadagoosesoutlet.ca they are being exploited but they know they can do nothing about it.”
In canada goose uk black friday one back street workshop in Istanbul, the programme team found several canada goose outlet shop Syrian children hard at work. They also discovered an Asos sample in the office.
Asos accepts its canada goose outlet clothes were made cheap Canada Goose in the factory, but says it is not an approved factory. The company has since inspected and found 11 Syrian adults and three Syrian children under 16 at work.
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The investigation uk canada goose also found Syrian refugees working 12 hour days in a factory that was distressing jeans canada goose factory sale for Mango and Zara.
The refugees were involved in spraying hazardous chemicals to bleach the jeans, but most of the workers did not even have a basic face mask.
Mango says that the factory was working as a sub contractor without its knowledge. Its subsequent inspection did not find any Syrian workers and found canada goose outlet store uk “good canada goose outlet in usa conditions except for some personal safety measures”.
Zara’s parent company, Inditex, says its factory canada goose clearance sale inspections are a “highly effective canada goose coats on sale way of monitoring and improving conditions”. It had already found significant non compliance in an canada goose outlet online audit in June and had given the factory until December to make the necessary improvements.
In another Istanbul factory, Panorama found Syrian adults at work alongside Turkish children as young as 10.
The owner said he had been working for Next and showed the undercover team a set of Next pyjamas that he said the factory had helped produce.
Next says the pyjamas were canada goose uk outlet actually canada goose outlet sale made by another supplier and the pyjamas we saw may have been a sample. It says samples circulate widely and that the presence of a sample in a factory does not mean cheap canada goose uk goose outlet canada it was made there.
Panorama Undercover: The Refugees Who Make Our Clothes is on BBC One at 20:30 BST on Monday 24 October and available on the BBC iPlayer canada goose store afterwards. The Canada Goose Outlet BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.