The Value of a Pakistani Worker: Discounter Offers $1,930 Per Victim in Factory Fire

SPIEGEL ONLINE - International - Labor Market 2013-07-20

German discount textile retailer Kik plans to pay damages totalling $500,000 to the families of more then 250 workers who died in a fire at a Pakistan factory used to produce its clothing. The families say that is too little and are threatening to sue.