Question: Is the company committed to ensuring that workers in its supply chain receive a Living Wage?
Answer:
Living Wage practices,
Living Wage progress
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Core
2023
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updated 2 months ago by Yuuyang Sun

"ABF Sugar will be launching a Human Rights Policy in 2024. It is also in the process of evolving its human rights due diligence approach towards a framework aligned to the OECD due diligence guidelines, as well as a diagnostic tool to utilise various global standards and develop a ‘fit for purpose’ wages model for its business and supply chains." (p.63)

 

"Primark is committed to pursuing a living wage for the workers in its supply chain. In 2014, Primark became a founding member of ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation). ACT is a groundbreaking agreement between trade unions, global brands and retailers seeking to transform the garment, textile and footwear industry and achieve living wages for workers." (p.78)

Yuuyang Sun.....2024-03-12 14:28:44 UTC

"We are committed to ensuring that by 2030 all our clothes will be made from recycled or more sustainably sourced materials, carbon emissions halved across the entire value chain and pursuing a living wage for workers in the supply chain." (p.50, Annual Report 2023)

 

"In our People pillar, as part of our commitment to pursuing the living wage for workers in our supply chain by 2030, we have commissioned the Global Living Wage Coalition to generate new or updated living wage benchmarks for our four key sourcing markets of China, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. This information, which we will make publicly available, will be critical in establishing the current wage gaps in these markets to enable us to pilot initiatives which address them. More broadly, we continue to work within ACT, training our buying teams on its responsible purchasing practices." (p.53, Annual Report 2023)

 

"Supply chains risks are increasing and are vulnerable to energy and wage inflation, as well as a greater risk of a move towards protectionism and heightened disruption exacerbated by the war in Ukraine." (p.97, Annual Report 2023)

Yuuyang Sun.....2024-03-12 14:35:33 UTC