Fatal fire at Indian leather garments factory
11/11/2016
Early reports from the region have said the workers made leather garments and bags and were asleep in the building when fire broke out. The building was in a residential area and a fire service official said that it was certain to have been operating as a manufacturing facility without the necessary permits.
Media in France said on reporting the incident that it may help campaigners there bring into effect a proposed law to make French companies responsible for people working directly for them or for outsource manufacturing partners anywhere in the world.
It proposes to make it compulsory for French firms with more than 5,000 workers in France or more than 10,000 outside the country to have in place a monitoring strategy aimed at preventing the risk of harm to workers or to the environment from their own or supply chain partners’ production facilities.
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