Living Wage Action Plan
Does the company have a public time bound action plan to pay living wage in their supply chain?
About the data
This metric is part of a Clean Clothes Campaign project to investigate wages in apparel supply chains. The project, Fashion Checker, is funded by the European Commission and comprises research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy around an innovative transparency tool.
Fashion Checker enables users to see at a glance which fashion brands and retailers have the largest gaps between their public commitments on wages, what workers are actually paid, and what they should be paid to be earning a Living Wage in their regional context.
Clean Clothes Campaign defines a living wage as wage that is earned in a standard working week of no more than 48 hours and allows the garment worker to be able to buy food for herself and her family, pay the rent, pay for healthcare, clothing, transportation and education and have a small amount of savings for when something unexpected happens.
(Source: CCC)
Methodology
This metric is asking whether the company has a public time bound action plan to pay living wages to its workers. Start by searching on the company’s website and within their published documents such as policy documents, annual reports and sustainability reports.
The public action plan or strategy must describe how the company will achieve a living wage that (1) covers all workers in the brand’s supplier network (2) within a reasonable time frame (=no more than 5 years).
Keywords and Search Terms
- Living wage
- Wages
- Supply chain
Answer Input
Always include the page number where you found the answer in the Comments field, as well as excerpts from the source where you found the information.
If the company has published a time-bound, public action plan describing how it will achieve a living wage for workers in its supply chain, enter the answer as 'Yes'.
If the company has no public plan describing how to improve wages for workers across its supplier network, enter the answer as 'No'.
From 2024 onwards, 'Partial' has been phased out as an answer option.
Please note: 'Unknown' is not a possible answer for this metric.