Fast-fashion retailer Boohoo has written to the Government to ask it to do more to stop workers being exploited in UK garment factories - despite investigating allegations of malpractice at its own supplier. On Friday, Boohoo Group plc CEO John Lyttle sent a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel. 'We're taking action to investigate allegations of malpractice in our supply chain and we ask government to take action too.' 'These include illegal wages, right to work, poor health and safety standards, subcontracting and vulnerable workers. 'Those factories operating outside of legal standards are undermining our efforts to improve standards in UK manufacture and increase our sourcing in the Leicester area.

Source: Daily Mail July 17, 2020 21:15 UTC