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Let's Clean Up Fashion - New Report
Posted
19th September 2011
Labour Behind the Label have released an update to their on-going exploration of working conditions in the clothing industry ‘Let’s Clean Up Fashion 2011’.
The report grades top high street retailers on the work they are doing to improve pay and conditions for workers in their supply chains.It includes among the worst offenders Debenhams, Fat Face, French Connection, Gap, Hobbs, Jane Norman, La Senza, Paul Smith, Peacocks, Reiss, Republic, River Island, Superdry and Whitestuff.
The group and the authors of the report Let’s Clean Up Fashion say wages across the board are too low to allow workers even basic living standards – the ability to feed, clothe and shelter a family.
The study also condemns 11 other companies for not making enough effort to work towards a decent wage: Arcadia, Asda/George, Aurora, Burberry, H&M, Levi Strauss, Matalan, New Look, Primark, Sainsbury and Tesco.
Authors were particularly critical of Gap, which received a top grade in the group’s previous Let’s Clean Up Fashion reports. They cite its recent decision to drop plans to work towards a living wage and to monitor payment only of a minimum wage, a figure which leaves workers struggling at the bottom of the poverty scale.
The study reveals that retailers taking more significant action to end poverty pay are Inditex, which owns the brand Zara, Next, Marks & Spencer and Monsoon.
But the group says none of the 29 UK high street brands surveyed yet pays workers a living wage.
Related link:
http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/campaigns/itemlist/category/2 20-clean-up-fashion