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Kuja wakenya kadhaa, ikiwemo mimi , wamekua wakisema Ethiopia inakuja vibaya na itatupiku kimaendeleo manake wawekezaji wanajenga viwanda vingi huko , lakini baada ya kusoma hii ripoti nimeona afadhali usiwe na viwanda kuliko hichi kinachofanyika Ethiopia, yani mfanyikazi wa kuchona nguo za export analipwa $26 kila mwezi!!!! yaani 2,600 KES (TSH 59,807 )......... Hata omba omba anapata hela nyingi kuliko hawa wafanyikazi wa Ethiopia huko EPZ... Hii ni kuonea wanaonewa, ndo maana bado wahabeshi wengi huvuka mpaka wakielekea SA kutafuta maisha bora...
Ethiopia
For all of its potential, the apparel industry
in Ethiopia has already encountered
difficulties. The government’s eagerness
to attract foreign investment led it to
promote the lowest base wage in any
garment-producing country—now set
at the equivalent of $26 a month. On
that amount, workers, most of them
young women from poor farming families,
cannot afford decent housing, food, and
transportation. Even when factory owners
provide additional modest payments for
regular attendance and meals, workers
struggle to get by. It’s common for
young women to live four-to-a-room,
without indoor plumbing
www.jamaicaobserver.com
Ethiopia's clothes factory workers, producing items for top fashion brands including Guess, H&M and Calvin Klein, are the worst paid in the world, earning only US$26 (23 euros) a month, a report said yesterday.
As Ethiopia seeks to become the continent's leading manufacturing hub, it has sold investors on workers' willingness to toil for less than half the salary of tailors in Bangladesh, said the report by New York University's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.
The report, entitled “Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier,” said that in comparison, notoriously poorly-paid workers in Bangladesh earned US$95.
Their Kenyan counterparts earn US$207 a month, and those in China US$326.
“Rather than the compliant, cheap workforce promoted in Ethiopia, the foreign-based suppliers have encountered employees who are unhappy with their compensation and living conditions and increasingly willing to protest by stopping work or even quitting,” said Paul Barrett, the centre's deputy director.
“In their eagerness to create a 'Made in Ethiopia' brand, the Government, global brands, and foreign manufacturers failed to anticipate that the base wage was simply too little for workers to live on.”
Ethiopia has no official minimum wage for the private sector.
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Ethiopia
For all of its potential, the apparel industry
in Ethiopia has already encountered
difficulties. The government’s eagerness
to attract foreign investment led it to
promote the lowest base wage in any
garment-producing country—now set
at the equivalent of $26 a month. On
that amount, workers, most of them
young women from poor farming families,
cannot afford decent housing, food, and
transportation. Even when factory owners
provide additional modest payments for
regular attendance and meals, workers
struggle to get by. It’s common for
young women to live four-to-a-room,
without indoor plumbing
Ethiopian clothes makers worst paid in the world: study
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Ethiopia's clothes factory workers, producing items for top ...
As Ethiopia seeks to become the continent's leading manufacturing hub, it has sold investors on workers' willingness to toil for less than half the salary of tailors in Bangladesh, said the report by New York University's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.
The report, entitled “Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier,” said that in comparison, notoriously poorly-paid workers in Bangladesh earned US$95.
Their Kenyan counterparts earn US$207 a month, and those in China US$326.
“Rather than the compliant, cheap workforce promoted in Ethiopia, the foreign-based suppliers have encountered employees who are unhappy with their compensation and living conditions and increasingly willing to protest by stopping work or even quitting,” said Paul Barrett, the centre's deputy director.
“In their eagerness to create a 'Made in Ethiopia' brand, the Government, global brands, and foreign manufacturers failed to anticipate that the base wage was simply too little for workers to live on.”
Ethiopia has no official minimum wage for the private sector.
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Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier
A new report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights assesses the arrival of the global apparel industry in Ethiopia, identifies problems related to low wage levels, and makes recommendations for a way forward that benefits the industry, Ethiopia, and Ethiopian factory workers.
