The legal minimum wage in Myanmar is 3,600 kyat (ยฃ2.12) for an eight-hour day โ equivalent to 26p an hour. Workers in all the factories investigated worked six-day weeks. Labour NGOs argued when the minimum wage was set that a minimum of 6,000 kyat a day was required for a basic standard of living. All the factories investigated employed workers below the age of 18. Several workers at factories supplying Lonsdale, New Look, H&M and Muji stated that they had started work at the age of 14. A worker at another factory told researchers: โWhen buyers come into the factory the child workers are being told not to come to work that day.โ
Gethin Chamberlain, 'How high street clothes were made by children in Myanmar for 13p an hour', The Guardian
