The official wage board in the chaotic, overcrowded and politically unstable south Asian state had proposed 5,300 takas (£43) a month as the minimum wage after a string of fatal factory accidents this year highlighted poor pay and conditions. In April 1,130 people died when a factory complex where garments for European retailers such as Benetton, Matalan and Primark were made collapsed. Factory ow
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