H&M Reportedly Used Factories That Worked Teens for 12-hour Shifts

H&M is under fire for contracting with factories that allegedly violated child-labor laws.

According to The Guardian, a book being published in Sweden next week describes how two factories in Myanmar had workers as young as 14 laboring more than 12 hours a day making clothes. H&M was one of their clients. In developing countries, such as Myanmar, the international conventions on child labor developed by the International Labour Organization do allow children to begin work at 14, but that length of workday violates both the conventions and Myanmar’s own laws.