Levi Strauss & Co. is strongly committed to worker’s rights and environmental stewardship across the apparel supply chain. On the 20th anniversary of our groundbreaking Terms of Engagement, Levi Strauss & Co. is announcing a new commitment to require contract factories to help make employees’’ lives better by supporting programs for their workers.LS&Co. is working to move beyond a compliance model of “do no harm”” to supporting factory – based programs that will help empower workers to improve their lives. LS&Co. will develop new requirements for our key suppliers that align with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) . Among these will include: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, improving maternal and child health, combating HIV/AIDs, and other diseases, promoting gender equality and empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
These Model Business and Supplier Policies address two specific human rights issues that potentially arise in the Operations of a business enterprise: Labour Trafficking and Child Labour. The Model Policies adopt a risk-based approach to ensure t...Read More
Thematic Articles: Reflections from the Field: Disparate responses to labour exploitation in post Katrina Louisiana. Base Motives: The case for an increased focus on wage theft against migrant workers. Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves? Listening to ...Read More
To reduce the risk to workers displaced due to the war in Ukraine, ETI established a working group with its members shortly after the Russian invasion, in early Spring 2022. The aim of the working group has been to facilitate knowledge and intel...Read More
The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) assessed three sectors in 2022: food and agricultural products (57 companies), ICT manufacturing (43 companies) and automotive manufacturing (29 companies). The revised CHRB methodology devotes more at...Read More
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