Child Labour
14-minutes, 2006
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Exclusive: Children as young as 12 have been making clothes for the world's third largest supermarket. Two factories in Bangladesh that are established-suppliers to the UK retailer, Tesco, employed the children to make Tesco's own-label clothes. An undercover team secretly filmed young workers in four factories run by suppliers to Britain's biggest retailer. Tesco is a founder member of the Ethical Trading Initiative, which bans child labour. As a result of the investigation Tesco said it had made unannounced visits to two of the four factories - but claimed to have found no evidence of underage workers. Both Bangladeshi suppliers have denied the existence of any child workers within their factories, stating the ages of all workers are independently verified. There is no suggestion that Tesco ever knew about child workers at any of the factories visited.