Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) jointly published Towards Better Modern Slavery Reporting, a review of global modern slavery legislation. It highlighted gaps in legislation and provides clear recommendations for governments and companies to enhance future modern slavery reporting.
News
Collected news links from external sources related to topics concerning the Book Chain Project.
Towards Better Modern Slavery Reporting
Labour Exploitation, 1 Mar 2019
H&M plans proper pay structures, worker committees in garment factories by 2018
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 Feb 2017
H&M is planning to have elected committees and proper pay structures for workers in its main supply factories across the world by 2018 in a bid to curb labour exploitation. By setting up these goals, the company is planning to work with its main suppliers to ensure wages for its 1.6 million garment workers are enough to afford a decent living and enable workers to raise their voices in a meaningful way with management by implementing capacity building programmes.