Uniqlo pledges to improve factory conditions in China

Tokyo

JAPANESE clothing giant Uniqlo on Thursday pledged to improve working conditions at its Chinese suppliers and beef up monitoring following claims that the firms were putting employees at risk.

The chain's parent company Fast Retailing said that it was ushering in changes after the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) published a study this week that said factory conditions were unsafe and workers were mistreated.