This Guidebook presents information on the Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) Worker Well-being (WWB), a supply chain initiative introduced by LS&Co. to raise the living standards of workers through partnerships with strategic vendors. The Guidebook outlines the criteria for vendor selection into WWB, implementation standards and requirements for validation of vendor programs. The guidelines in this document are applicable to all LS&Co. vendors and we expect that, with time, all supply chain partners meet these criteria.
Modern slavery is a global phenomenon, with 40.3 million victims and $354 billion at-risk products imported by G20 countries in one year alone, according to estimates by the Walk Free Foundation (2018). Australia has historically been complicit in t...Read More
Labour migration may benefit employers and workers, and across the world recruitment agencies play an important role in matching migrant workers with available jobs. However, while the cost of recruitment of higher skilled migrant workers tends to b...Read More
Prepared by Sanjeev Dasgupta and Ana Maria Soto, Issara Institute. According to the 2017 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, there are about 40 million people living in modern slavery situations worldwide. The Asia-Pacific region has the highest...Read More
The vast majority of modern slavery and human trafficking cases involve interaction with finance in some form. In many cases, traffickers exploit their victims financially, taking control of their bank accounts, confiscating wages, and using debt as...Read More
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