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“Paying fair living wages creates an economy that leads to increased worker morale, health and improved quality of service.

The JD Group define the living wage by using the Global Living Wage Coalition. This definition seeks to ensure that workers can afford decent housing, meet the basic needs of themselves and their families, and accumulate savings, all without working overtime.

JD Global acknowledges that the change required cannot be enacted in one phase and started by evaluating factory workers earnings in the Group’s own Tier 1 supply chain. JD Global are working to find ways to encourage reward for workers for the increased private label business that results from consolidation of the supply base and to instill the principle that every worker has the right to fair compensation.”

Although they are working towards it the above statement does not meet this criteria as they are not disclosing that they provide a living wage to workers