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Over the past several months, in Issara’s ongoing engagement with brands and retailers, business associations, and environmental sustainability colleagues, Issara has been asked many times what worker voice is. It is widely observed at this point that there are more and more programs and technologies emerging that refer to themselves as “worker voice,” but then also a sneaking suspicion that not all are. So how to understand what worker voice is, why it is important for both workers and business, and what harm can be done by positioning a program as worker voice when it really is not?
Understanding and Advancing Empowered Worker Voice - Issara Institute, 2022
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A stitch in time saved none: How fashion brands fueled violence in the factory and beyond
GuidanceThis study documents women garment workers’ experiences of gender- based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asian production countries. It elaborates “economic harm” as a form of GBVH, underscoring how the b...Read More
Repayment of Recruitment Fees to Workers: 4 Emerging Best Practices
Online ToolsGuidanceGood PracticesPublicationsA growing number of global brands and retailers are adopting ethical recruitment policies stipulating, among other things, that all costs and fees related to labour recruitment are paid by the employer and not by the workers being recruited. Employe...Read More
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Still Struggling: Migrant Construction Workers in Qatar During the Pandemic
GuidanceThis report uses Qatar as a case study to examine how the global public health crisis affected destitute migrants in the Middle East and how employers and the government responded. It also makes a series of reform recommendations that would promote ...Read More
