On 03 November the Swedish clothing company together with the international union federation IndustriAll as well as the Swedish industry union IF Metall signed a global framework agreement (GFA) focusing specifically on suppliers, as well as promoting unions and collective bargaining as the best way of ensuring decent working conditions.
Within the context of this GFA, H&M’s suppliers and sub-contractors will be expected to respect ILO conventions on freedom of association (including management impartiality), on discrimination, on forced labor and child labor, on regular work, decent salaries, on respect for working time, etc. The agreement also devotes attention to health and safety at work, given the Rana Plaza catastrophe where H&M found itself implicated: employer obligations to ensure safe working conditions, to ensure...
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