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H&M operates in 61 markets with 3,900 stores; works with 900 suppliers representing 1,900 factories; and employs more than 116,000 employees across their global production network. H&M saw sales rise globally in 2015 and plans to open 425 new stores in 2016. Brands like H&M wield the potential to transform working conditions through their supply chains. Recognizing their responsibility to uphold human rights at work, H&M has set themselves apart from other brands by committing to ensure fair living wages, safe workplaces and accountability for rights violations within their supply chains.
[…] this report revisits the status of H&M’s commitments to decent work through the lens of rights at work as they are protected under International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and other instruments.
Shedding light on gaps in implementation of H&M commitments, violations of international labour standards and challenges H&M may face in upholding commitments to decent work, this report contributes new research collected through interviews with 251 workers in Cambodia and India engaged in H&M supply chains. These recent findings, collected between August and October 2015, are situated in context of both previous studies on H&M supply chains in Cambodia and India and the broader context of the global production network.

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Das Länderprofil gibt einen Überblick über die Bekleidungs- und Schuhindustrie in Albanien. Es geht auf die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Bekleidungs- und Schuhindustrie sowie Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen ein. Insbesondere werden – auf Grundlage von Interviews mit Arbeiter_innen – die Löhne und gewerkschaftliche Organisierung thematisiert. Insbesondere werden die Löhne der Bekleidungsindustrie Existenzlöhnen gegenübergestellt. Es werden Fallbeispiele geschildert und Forderung zur Verbesserung der Situation formuliert.

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Supply chains refer, step by step, to the activities followed from conception to final use to bring a product to market. Supply chains play a vital role in the commerce sector in bringing the products wanted by customers to retailers’ shelves. The commerce sector comprises an important part of the world economy and is highly globalized.

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Fair Wear Foundation’s living wage strategy focuses on a step-by-step process of identifying and overcoming obstacles to the payment of living wages. Payment of a living wage – one that is sufficient to meet basic needs of workers and their families, and to provide some discretionary income – is one of FWF’s eight core labour standards, derived from United Nations and ILO norms.

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This report by Action Labor Rights (ALR) examines the labour conditions in a selection of garment factories in Myanmar which are either wholly Korean owned or joint-ventures with Korean companies. Most of the companies are in industrial zones in the Yangon region and Bago. It is based on qualitative and quantitative data gathered from 1200 employee interviews at 39 factory sites by a team of 10 field researchers in April-June 2015, as well as secondary data collected from other key informants, e.g. including managers and focus groups. The survey compares conditions in factories to the requirements of the Myanmar legal framework. It reveals significant non-compliance on the part of many Korean factories, particularly with laws on working hours and overtime. In factories surveyed, excessive overtime appeared to be the major issue of concern, both from a legal compliance perspective, but also in terms of the key issue impacting on the health, well-being and safety of factory employees.

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