Even the legal minimum wage is set too low to allow the workers to climb out of misery. By law, a factory the size of Beximco should have a health clinic, with a doctor present. Beximco has nothing. There is an empty first aid box for show. The women workers and their children have absolutely no health coverage or protection.
Access is limited and bathroom breaks are timed.
The workers can withdraw their savings from this fund when they leave the factory or are fired. It functions as a kind of severance pay, to act as a bridge or means of support while new work is sought. But most workers at Beximco, who have been forced to leave, report that they are cheated of their savings. Even by industry standards, Wal-Mart's code of conduct is very limited and extremely weak. Yet the workers at Beximco have never even seen this weak code of conduct.