FEMNET welcomes the new binding agreement on workers' safety On 25 August 2021, clothing companies and trade unions announced their agreement on a new international agreement on health and safety in the textile and clothing industry. This extends and expands the previous Accord for the Protection of Seamstresses. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 26 August 2021 Read more …
Destroyed Rana Plaza building Change begins with you, OTTO - Sign the new binding security agreement! Press release of the Clean Clothes Campaign of 20.05.2021 On 15 May 2013, just weeks after the Rana Plaza collapse, which killed at least 1,134 people, brands and retailers, along with trade unions, signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (Accord). This landmark, legally binding agreement expires in 10 days, on May 31, 2021, after the program has made 1,600 factories safer for over two million garment workers over the past eight years. The Clean Clothes Germany campaign calls on the 200 brands and retailers that are currently signatories to the Accord, including the Otto Group, to sign a new legally binding security agreement. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 21 May 2021 Read more …
Zalando and its suppliers: The online retailer has little concrete information when it comes to labour rights Joint press release by FEMNET and the umbrella organisation Critical Shareholders On the occasion of the upcoming Annual General Meeting of Zalando on 19 May 2021, Gisela Burckhardt, shareholder and CEO of the women's rights organisation FEMNET, poses critical questions to the online retailer. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 17 May 2021 Read more …
Critical Questions for Hugo Boss at the Shareholders' Meeting Joint press release by FEMNET and the umbrella organisation Critical Shareholders At the next Annual General Meeting of Hugo Boss on 11 May, FEMNET and the umbrella organisation of Critical Shareholders submitted critical questions to the fashion company. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 10 May 2021 Read more …
‘The green button’: German state metaseal does not guarantee human rights protection Joint press release by FEMNET e.V. and Public Eye Zurich/Lausanne, Bonn. FEMNET and Public Eye have jointly analyzed the reporting of fashion companies whose products are certified with the "Green Button" of the German Ministry of Development. The sobering result one year after the start of the Green Button: Public reporting by many companies is inadequate. Standard and testing process have shortcomings, so that the Green Button does not deliver in practice, which many of them promise: Clothes and textiles produced without exploitation or pollution. Sealers and seal holders urgently need to improve. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 07 January 2021 Read more …
Salaries to Live Instead of Dividends at Hugo Boss If the group does not move forward, the shareholders can show it the way. For example, on the occasion of the Hugo Boss Annual General Meeting, shareholder and FEMNET Chairman Dr Gisela Burckhardt calls for the creation of a ‘fund for living wages’ for the group’s seamstresses in its supply chains. At the latest in times of the corona crisis, it is now becoming apparent that without sustainable income structures, the survivability of the clothing industry and its employees is at stake. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 18 May 2020 Read more …
© cini.angela - Depositphotos.com From Rana Plaza to COVID-19: Textile workers again in deep crisis. Fair Purchasing Practices of Businesses Press release of civil society in the Textile Alliance Seven years after the factory collapse of Rana Plaza, textile workers are once again plunging into a crisis due to COVID-19. Right now, the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles must prove itself as an authority for safeguarding human rights responsibility, demands civil society in the Textile Alliance. While brand and retail companies are responding to the COVID-19 crisis with far-reaching cancellations from their suppliers, textile workers in the producing countries are suffering extreme economic hardship due to the loss of income. If the regular wage falls away, which often does not reach the end of the month anyway, there are no social security systems in place. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 24 April 2020 Read more …
© Devi Adamo 2019 Transparency in the clothing sector is growing – but many companies in the textile alliance continue to refuse FEMNET has published the most important results of a new study in German Textile companies have made great progress in recent years in disclosing information about their supply chains. This is shown in a report published in December 2019 by an alliance of trade unions, human rights groups and labour rights initiatives, including the Clean Clothes Campaign. The short version has been translated into German by FEMNET. The report is an update of the 2017 company survey. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 13 January 2020 Read more …
The failure of TÜV and Co: Social audits protect companies and leave workers in the lurch Social audits are designed to monitor and ensure compliance with human rights at work. However, as a control tool, this approach has failed. This is documented in the report ‘FIG LEAF FOR FASHION - How social auditing protects brands and fails workers’ of the Clean Clothes Campaign: The multi-billion-dollar, private-sector certification and audit industry systematically protects the reputation and profits of the contracting companies instead of the rights of workers. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 12 November 2019 Read more …
Civil society in the Textile Alliance: Green button just another voluntary measure alongside a weak textile alliance Berlin / Bonn. Today's presentation of the new ‘Green Button’ textile label by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) uses civil society in the Textile Alliance to determine a critical location. The members of the civil society alliance criticise the fact that the Green Button, like the Textile Alliance, is only a voluntary measure. However, there is an urgent need for a law that makes human rights, environmental and anti-corruption due diligence mandatory for all companies. This law must form the basis for social, ecological and economic sustainability. Voluntary measures such as the Green Button and an improved textile alliance could build on this. Details Category: Unternehmensverantwortung Published: 09 September 2019 Read more …
