The Issues: Working Hours

Many workers in garment and fashion supply chains experience extremely long working hours and are often required to work excessive overtime.  The standard worki...

The Issues: Regular Employment

From the sourcing of raw materials, through distribution and manufacturing to retail, millions of workers in the fashion industry are struggling to survive in precarious and ins...

The Issues: Health & Safety

A safe and hygienic working environment is not just good for workers, it’s good for business. A happy and healthy workforce, free from accidents, injury or sickness, is a more...

The Issues: Harassment & Abuse

Everyone has the right to be protected from abuse and harassment in the workplace. This can involve physical abuse, the threat of physical abuse, sexual or other types of harass...

The Issues: Freedom of Association & Right to Collective Bargaining

For any fashion company seeking to achieve a positive social impact on their operations and supply chains including a living wage, the empowerment and involvement of workers’ ...

Fashion's Key Social Issues

Wages Most of the world’s garments are made in Asia, and most of the workers who make them are not paid enough to live on - a ‘living wage’ - even when they get ...

The Issues: Modern Slavery

Globally, it is estimated that 40.3 million people are locked into modern slavery at any one time, of whom around ...

The Issues: Discrimination

Everyone wants to be given a fair and equal chance to find work, to access the same opportunities for training or advancement, and to receive the same rewards, regardless of rac...

The Issues: Child Labour

Despite many efforts to eradicate child labour globally, there are still an esti...

The Issues: Living Wages

From cotton fields to factory floors, the fashion and textile industry has been in the spotlight in recent years for unacceptable working conditions, including paying very low, ...

Living Wages: Why Has Progress Stalled?

No notable fashion brand is currently paying all the workers in their supply chain a living wage. So why has progress stalled? We take a look at the current state of play and the k...