Amazon, ASOS, Next, and Zalando pull Boohoo's brands from their websites following reports that suppliers' factory workers are paid as little as $4 an hour

• Amazon, ASOS, Next, and Zalando are among the retailers that have dropped Boohoo's clothing from their own websites, following reports of workers' rights violations in factories supplying clothes to Boohoo. 
• Boohoo is currently investigating these allegations and has launched an independent review of its supply chain. 
• Amazon, ASOS, and Zalando said they have pulled Boohoo and its sister brands' clothing and accessories from their sites while the company conducts its investigation. 
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Retailers Next, Zalando, Amazon.com, and ASOS are delisting products made by Britain's Boohoo Group, following a media report about dire working conditions in an English factory that supplied the popular brand.

Boohoo shares have slumped since the Sunday Times newspaper reported that workers in a factory in Leicester, central England, making clothes destined for Boohoo were being paid as little as £3.50 ($4.38) an hour. Boohoo has launched an independent review of its supply chain and cut its relationship with two suppliers.

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