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“UK – working with community organisations and trade unions to empower workers Reports about garment industry worker exploitation in Leicester have persisted for several years. A recent report by the Nottingham Rights 2022 Lab highlighted that this is partly due to workers’ financial precarity and insufficient multi-agency collaboration at a local level. A key recommendation from the report is the need to improve community-based support, advocacy, and advice for workers. We recognise the role community outreach needs to play in educating and engaging workers about their rights and providing support in accessing these. Over the past year we have been involved in several initiatives to achieve this, including:

• Fashion-Workers Advice Bureau Leicester (FAB-L) –

• Workplace Support Agreement –

• Apparel General Merchandising Public and Private Protocol (AGM PPP) –

• Joint Responsibility Initiative-”

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“• During unannounced audits in China between July – Aug 2021, seven children aged between 5 and 10 were observed playing on the production floor while their parents were working nearby in three factories. To remediate this, we engaged with The Centre for Child Rights and Business (The Centre) to strengthen the three factories’ management and workers’ awareness and knowledge on the risk and prevention of children in the workplace, as well as child labour, to improve their Human Resources Management.

• We set up a child friendly space in one of our factories in China on 1st Aug 2021 for 9 children aged between 5-10 years old with the support of The Centre. Free childcare and meals are provided during working hours.”

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“We take a continuous improvement approach and look to work with our suppliers to ensure corrective actions have been implemented.”

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“Through our ESG partner, EcoVadis, we have made improvements with our supplier risk assessments by agreeing corrective action plans and encouraging continuous improvement in all key GNFR suppliers”

“Based on the assessment results, we can work with suppliers and develop corrective action plans to strengthen the performance of the supplier’s company. EcoVadis also provides resources and tools to suppliers so they can continuously improve (e.g. online training, scorecard debriefs).”

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“• Exited one China garment factory and withheld the onboarding of 2 factories due to parent company links to the Xinjiang Aid Project.”

“• Exited one China export company which was located in Xinjiang”

'India

We worked with our supply chain partners in Karnataka to ensure all outstanding arrears have been paid to the workers.' - 14

'Sri Lanka

In 2021, we worked with our suppliers and factories to ensure there were no outstanding arrears and have now confirmed that 100% of wages have been paid. This has now also become a minimum requirement for any new factory to be onboarded.' - 14