By AFPEthiopia's clothes factory workers, producing items for top fashion brands including Guess, H&M and Calvin Klein, are the worst paid in the world, earning only $26 (23 euros) a month, a report said Tuesday. The report, entitled "Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier," said that in comparison, notoriously poorly-paid workers in Bangladesh earned $95. The report found that workers, many of them young women, received very little training and faced cultural conflicts with managers from south or east Asia. 'Seemingly unrealisticSome 25,000 people work there, making clothes for the most sought-after brands around the globe, a number expected to grow to about 60,000. Ethiopia is Africa's second-most populous country, with some 105 million people who still largely survive off agriculture, and face punishing droughts and poverty.

Source: Ethiopian News May 08, 2019 02:48 UTC