Ikea says product shortages will last well into the summer of 2022
Business InsiderFeb 03, 2022
Furniture firm Ikea will reportedly pay kroners 70M ($6.M) as reparations to political prisoners of the erstwhile German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, whom it used as forced labor in the 1970s-80s. Ikea's exploitation was revealed in 2012 by the Svt television network.
The Swedish company has reportedly handed over a declaration of intent in this regard to Evelyn Zupke, the German government commissioner handling affairs related to injustices in former East Germany. The German parliament will soon vote on the establishment of the fund.
An independent E&Y probe, too, confirmed in 2012 that political prisoners made furniture for Ikea during the Cold War. In 2021, Germany’s ruling coalition mooted a national fund for the survivors. Ikea Germany CEO Walter Kadnar Tuesday said “we deeply regret that this happened.”