Supplier Responsibility
Good PracticesPublicationsThis 2019 Annual Progress Report outlines Apple's efforts in 2018.
Using a unique data set based on factory audits of working conditions in over 800 of Nike’s suppliers in 51 countries, this paper seeks to explore whether or not monitoring for compliance with corporate codes of conduct — currently the principal way both global corporations and labour rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address poor working conditions in global supply chain factories — actually leads to remediation in terms of improved working conditions and enforced labour rights. The evidence presented suggests that notwithstanding the significant efforts and investments by Nike and its staff to improve working conditions among its suppliers, monitoring alone appears to produce only limited results. Instead, our research indicates that when monitoring efforts are combined with other interventions focused on tackling some of the root causes of poor working conditions — by improving the ability of suppliers to better schedule their work and improve their quality and efficiency — working conditions appear to significantly improve. This suggests that the current (highly polarized) debates over monitoring and labour standards need to be recast and new, more systemic approaches towards tackling these problems need to be pursued.
This 2019 Annual Progress Report outlines Apple's efforts in 2018.
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 and is accurate as of July 11, 2018. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may be revealed to the National Hotline over time. Conseq...Read More
This small-scale exploratory study aims to understand whether certain categories of workers in the textile and apparel sector in the National Capital Region in India are at any risk of forced labour, and, if so, the nature and incidence of these ris...Read More
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