Herausgeber_in: Deloitte Access Economics for Oxfam Australia

Kurzbeschreibung:

Deloitte Access Economics has been engaged by Oxfam Australia to provide analysis of Australia’s garment industry. Specifically, Oxfam has requested Deloitte Access Economics answer two specific questions:

• Current factory wages: What is the typical share of the overall price to Australian consumers of garments produced in global supply chains which is spent on factory worker wages?

• Living wages: How much would the overall cost of bringing a garment to Australian consumers increase if a living wage were instead paid to factory workers?

• Using previous research, publicly available data, and data from several Australian businesses, Deloitte Access Economics has put together a cost structure framework of Australia’s garment supply industry. This framework represents the whole industry as an average and is not representative of a specific business or garment.

• Deloitte Access Economics has also estimated the impact on retail prices of moving towards a living wage. This analysis assumes that all players within the supply chain pass on the full cost of the wage increase. This does not answer how businesses could adjust their operations or how a living wage could practically be implemented.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 30

Sprache: Englisch

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Autor_in: Dr. Bettina Musiolek

Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign

Kurzbeschreibung:

The H&M group is one of the world’s largest retailers with 4,801 shops worldwide. In November 2013, H&M announced that all “H&M’s strategic suppliers should have pay structures in place to pay a fair living wage by 2018. By then, this will reach around 850 000 textile workers.” At the time, those workers made 60% of H&M’s products, sourced from ‘strategic and preferred suppliers’ which H&M grades as gold or platinum. With H&M’s deadline nearing, Clean Clothes Campaign set out to check what workers were making in some of those supplier factories, and how close that was to a living wage. In our understanding, a living wage should be earned in a standard working week and allow the garment worker and her/his family to cover basic needs: food to meet nutritional needs, housing, healthcare, clothing, transportation and education, plus 10% discretionary income for savings, or protection in case of the unexpected. Our researchers spoke with 62 workers in Bulgaria, Turkey, India and Cambodia. This document highlights their key findings as well as some additional facts that shed light on H&M’s supply chain and the brand’s progress in implementing its commitments. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 17 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Fair Wear Foundation

Kurzbeschreibung:

This paper examines the application of human rights due diligence in the area of wages. In order to wage compliance to be achieved and for wages to improve, both a greater transparency in cost price negotiations between apparel buyers and their suppliers, and a precise determination of the labour component must take place.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 19 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Fair Wear Foundation

Kurzbeschreibung:

This discussion paper is designed to explore the relationships between productivity, efficiency and living wages, and to locate productivity and efficiency gains within the larger universe of options for funding living wages. It begins with a basic overview of how productivity and efficiency interact in the garment industry. It then outlines the potential effects of productivity drives on both costs and workers and discusses the importance of negotiating with workers on how to manage the potential negative impacts of productivity increases.

This paper is written for a variety of readers who are involved with work on living wages, but who may not normally deal with productivity, efficiency or product pricing as part of their everyday work, including CSR managers, trade unionists, government policymakers or NGO staff, for example. This paper was published as part of FWF’s Living Wage Incubator programme, under the Strategic Partnership for Garment Supply Chain Transformation.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 19 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign

Schlagwörter: Bangladesch, EU Politik, Gewerkschaft, Gewerkschaften, Gewerkschaftsunterdrückung, Gewerkschaftsfreiheit, Handel, Lohnerhöhung, Lohn, Mindestlohn,

Kurzbeschreibung:

This paper sums up the situation in Bangladesh since the wage strike of December 2016 and the crackdown on labour that follows and makes the case for the need of a trade investigation by the European Union.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 8 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber: Cividep India

Schlagwörter:  Indien, Niedriglöhne, Lohnerhöhung

Kurzbeschreibung:
The garment industry has been vocal in its demand for economic relief and concessions, in order to sustain competitiveness, and safeguard employment in a highly labour intensive industry. The industry failed to implement the wage increase legislated by the state government in 2009 despite the fact that non-implementation is a violation of the Minimum Wages Act.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2009

Umfang: 11 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien:  Hintergrundinformationen

Bezug:  kostenfrei zum Download bei Cividep.

Herausgeber: Action Aid

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, miserable Löhne, Hungerlöhne, Lohnerhöhung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Investigations have shown low wages, excessive hours and harassment of workers to have been commonplace in factories in Asia supplying George. Asda’s response to these criticisms has been to trumpet a showcase project to improve productivity in four Bangladeshi factories where it says workers’ pay and conditions have improved. However, an ActionAid investigation into these factories reveals that, far from demonstrating best practice, conditions for workers remain unacceptable, with poverty wages, unreasonable hours and physical abuse of workers still taking place.  Read ActionAid's latest report on ASDA George by downloading the pdf below.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2011

Umfang: 8 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF kostenfrei zum Download bei labourbehindthelabel.org

Herausgeber: Action Aid

Schlagwörter:  Arbeitsbedingungen, miserable Löhne, Hungerlöhne, Lohnerhöhung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Asda has its sights trained on becoming Britain’s number one cheap fashion retailer. But while the company tries leaping ahead of its rivals on the high street, it’s falling behind in its efforts to improve conditions for women workers in poor countries, whose wages are keeping them trapped in poverty.
New research by ActionAid shows that it doesn’t have to be this way. If Asda paid just two pence extra on each t-shirt it buys from India, the women who make them could be paid a living wage.  ActionAid's report on ASDA, published in 2010, explores these issues in depth.  Download the full report using the link below and ask ASDA to take action by clicking here.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010

Umfang: 11 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF kostenfrei zum Download bei labourbehindthelabel.org.