In addition to its prior commitment, the C&A Foundation has expressed its willingness to contribute more fund to compensate to the Tazreen victims fairly and fully.
C&A, an international Dutch chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with its European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany, has retail stores in many European and Latin-American countries.
After two years of Tazreen Fashion fire incident, an agreement has been reached between IndustriALL Global Union and their local affiliates, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and C&A Foundation on a system for delivering compensation to the victims of the tragedy, said CCC in a statement yesterday.
The pledge came after the tripartite consensus on the principles for an agreement to compensate the Tazreen victims following recent negotiations facilitated by the ILO.
The final details of the pledge will be worked out and made public once the cost of the package has been finalised, said the statement.
The C&A has agreed to provide more funds to compensate the victims of Tazreen Fashion, Roy Ramesh Chandra, secretary general of IndustriALL Bangladesh Council told the Dhaka Tribune.
“We are urging all the brands that sourced from Tazreen Fashions to pay into the fund to compensate as per the ILO convention,” he said.
“We are extremely pleased to be able to announce CCC and IndustriALL have reached an outline agreement with C&A on the principles of a compensation process and pledged to contribute a significant amount towards full and fair compensation for Tazreen victims, in addition to those funds that have already been committed,” said Ineke Zeldenrust of CCC.
The system will be based on the system already developed for the Rana Plaza victims, which covers compensation for loss of income, provision of independent medical assessments and ongoing treatment, he said.