fashion chain signed an agreement for safety in factories in Bangladesh

  Some of the biggest fashion retailers around the world, including Zara and H & M have a legally binding agreement to improve the financial and building fire in Bangladesh factories they use signed.

The agreement aims to conduct safety inspections in the compulsory and free workshops.

A spokesperson for H & M, the Swedish multinational retail clothing that they hoped to create a work environment "in which no worker should fear fire creating, building collapses and other accidents this could be prevented through safety measures and reasonable health."

The move came Monday, the Bangladesh government has agreed to allow the textile workers of the country, of which there are four million to make, the unions without permission of the manufacturer.

Government spokesman Bhuiyansaid Mosharraf Hossain said that the ministers had agreed to amend the law to remove legal restrictions on the formation of trade unions in most industries.

"Such permission of the owner is now necessary," Bhuiyan told reporters. "The government will do that for the well-being of workers."

The announcement came after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building on 24 April, which killed more than 1,100 people.

A series of deadly incidents in factories, including a fire that killed 112 people worldwide in November attracted the attention to the safety standards in the garment industry of Bangladesh booming industry, the world's largest exporter of clothing after China.

Since 2005, at least 1,800 textile workers were killed in a fire and collapsing buildings in the country, according to the International Labor Rights Forum.

Powered by the latest collapse of the building, drew international condemnation, the government announced on Sunday, raise the minimum wage for garment workers are paid between some of the lowest wages in the world.

Those who were working in Rana Plaza only $ 38 per month paid, according to The Guardian on Monday.

"I think the work needs to be scrutinized. We want to save the industry, but at the same time we want to increase the standard of living of our employees. We do not want slaves," Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Minister of Textiles said in an interview with the Guardian.