H&M: signs a global framework agreement on fundamental rights along its supply chain

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 training of employees on Health and Safety aspects of work, and above all to recognize the rights of workers to refuse to work should they consider working conditions to be dangerous, without incurring reprisals or wage deductions.