Business & Human Rights Resource Centre+IDH Living Wage Call to Action Signatory+About
The IDH, Sustainable Trade Initiative launched a Call to Action to companies to join the effort to build a living wage economy.
The signatory companies commit to the following ten actions:
- Identifying living wage gaps in our own operations and supply chains, with a specific focus on the gender pay gap.
- Establishing shared frameworks with supply chain partners to close the gap, with concrete milestones.
- Joining in multi-stakeholder partnerships that target areas with large living wage gaps.
- Building awareness and understanding among consumers of how they contribute to better livelihoods.
- Implementing practical solutions to remove barriers and close living wage gaps and share costs in an equitable way.
- Supporting freedom of association with robust social dialogue and wage setting mechanisms.
- Adopting sustainable procurement and trading practices, including living wage requirements as part of commercial specifications, sourcing policies and/or contractual clauses/purchasing agreements.
- Ensuring that value created actually reaches workers.
- Transparently reporting on progress towards a living wage.
- Sharing learnings, challenges and solutions to inform and elevate all efforts as we find new pathways for reaching living wages.