Herausgeber_in: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Autor_in: Alysha Khambay, Thulsi Narayanasamy
Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene
Medien: Hintergrundinformationen
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Asien, Afrika, COVID-19, Corona, Einkaufspraktiken, Existenzsichernde Löhne, Gender, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Lieferketten, Löhne, Living Wage, Menschenrechte, Produktion, Unternehmensverantwortung
Kurzbeschreibung:
This report demonstrates how the business model of fashion brands and the structure of global garment supply chains create and sustain poverty wages for garment workers. We explore how persistently low wages continue to be the foundation of the industry despite policy commitments to pay a living wage. Elements of supply chains that impact wage levels are: the indirect employment relationship with supply chain workers; the global race to the bottom on labour costs which suppress national minimum wage increases; and the unequal power relationship between brands and suppliers which allow brands to dictate the terms of production, often at the expense of suppliers.
Between August 2020 and February 2021, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) approached 16 brands for a response to allegations of unpaid wages and benefits (wage theft). All brands included in the report have policy commitments to ensure workers in their supply chain are paid. Ten go further and explicitly refer to aspirations to pay a living wage, with five of these brands members of the key voluntary initiative on living wage payment, Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT). Yet the existence of voluntary initiatives on living wages has failed to result in the payment of living wages to garment workers or even an increase in the wage level.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Umfang: 33 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
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