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Fair Wear

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

17 December 2024

3 minutes

Although a lot has been published about the risks of bad purchasing practices, and their potential impacts on human rights in supply chains - including excessive hours and low wages - relatively little has been shared and developed to show how this can be practically improved, with stories of companies making positive changes.

New Lessons on Purchasing Practices Uncovered, Valuable to Brands, Retailers and Manufacturers Alike

Zeist, Netherlands: After two years of work driving responsible purchasing practices, the Learning and Implementation Community (LIC) has come to an end. In a public meeting held on November 13th, the LIC shared rich lessons from its two-year term revealing key areas of improvement among brands as a result of their participation.

Although a lot has...

Living Wages / 2024 Scores

21 February 2024

2 minutes

Launched in 2022, the Industry Dashboard serves as an annual barometer of industry progress, encouraging accountability and galvanising action across the sector.

Falling Short of Living Standards: Gap Between Minimum Wage and Living Wage Shows Increase

The multistakeholder The Industry We Want (TIWW) has published its 2024 Industry Dashboard which shows that descpite industry efforts, the gap between minimum wages and living wages has marginally increased over the last year.

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Brand & Retailers / Higg Update

3 March 2023

4 minutes

Brands and retailers can use the Higg BRM to understand their performance in these areas: Environment: climate, water, waste, biodiversity and chemicals; Social: workers, employees, consumers and communities; Governance: structure and management, ethics and behaviour.

SAC, Higg Reorganise Module for Brands and Retailers; Add Biodiversity as Impact Area

The updated Higg Brand & Retail Module is now available for brands and retailers to measure and report on their ESG impacts to understand their progress and identify areas for improvement with clarity and transparency.

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Workers Rights / Grievance Redressal

28 September 2022

2 minutes

Three leading organisations have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen their collaboration in jointly addressing workers’ grievances from shared factories of their various member brands.

Amfori, Fair Wear, Partnership for Sustainable Textiles Sign MoU on Addressing Workers’ Grievances

Three leading brands’ associations have decided to tackle workers’ grievances from shared factories. This new collaboration will initially be piloted for a year, with the objective to improve working conditions in their members’ supply chains and to offer learnings for the industry to align access to remedies.

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Buying Practices / DISCLOSURES

12 April 2022

2 minutes

Suppliers to both ETI and Fair Wear member brands reported that buyers could improve, amongst other things, practices regarding product and process innovation, environmental performance and efficiency in their operational processes.

ETI, Fair Wear disclose it all for transparent buying practices

In addition to showing fair financial practices and business dealings free from corruption and bribery, Fair Wear and ETI member brands showcased particularly good communication practices.