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Sie möchten als Beschaffer*in wissen, welche Berufsbekleidungsunternehmen sozial verantwortlich produzieren? Sie möchten Ihre Kommune über sozial verantwortlichen Einkauf von Berufsbekleidung informieren? Sie sind als Unternehmen daran interessiert, soziale Standards in der Lieferkette glaubwürdig umzusetzen?

Die Firmenbefragung fördert Transparenz in der Branche und den Dialog zwischen öffentlichen Einkaufenden und Unternehmen. Die Ergebnisse der Befragung sind erstmals im Frühjahr 2013 erschienen, die neuste Auflage gibt den Stand von 2018 wieder. 

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Although there are initiatives in Myanmar to improve working conditions, wages here are among the lowest in the world. Meet Thet Thet Zon, she has been working as a sewing operator for two years, 6 days per week, 11 hours a day. She earns 125 dollars per month. What does she have left at the end of the month?

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The textile industry is one of Macedonia’s most developed economic sectors, and there are over 600 companies actively involved at various levels of production, employing over 40,000 workers and producing over €450 million worth of exports. Textiles contribute to about 12.45% of the industrial GDP (2.4% of Macedonia’s GDP), and represented 12.4% of country exports in 2016. The Macedonian textile industry, however, represents less than 1% of global textile exports worldwide.

Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) has been active in Macedonia since 2004. According to the latest FWF annual report, ten FWF member companies were sourcing from 21 Macedonian suppliers. FWF audits show some general areas of concern, of which the first is documentation. Records are often not kept properly, making it both difficult to assess if workers receive the benefits to which they are entitled, and how many hours they actually worked. A second, much larger problem concerns health and safety. Factory audits often uncover problems with fire safety, ranging from faulty or absent fire detection systems to a lack of fire safety training.

FWF will continue to provide updated information on Macedonia on its website and will update this country study on a periodic basis in the future. 

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Tearfund and Baptist World Aid’s Ethical Fashion Report has returned for 2018, allowing consumers to assess information on 407 different international and local fashion brands.

This is the fifth report produced by Baptist World Aid Australia examining labour rights management systems in the fashion industry. It grades 114 companies (covering these 407 brands), from A to F, on the strength of their policies, traceability and transparency and systems to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and exploitation in their supply chains.

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Climate change, population growth, and shortages of key resources are already affecting the industry and they will bring profound changes over the next 15 years. By 2025 there are expected to be another billion people living on this planet and twice as many elderly people. Climate change will have major impacts on agriculture and patterns of global land use. Many communities will change radically, affecting the needs of the industry’s customers and the availability of labour. Demand for energy, water and food will grow, prices are likely to rise, and control of resources will be a key political issue. Other factors will shape our world in less predictable ways. China, India and other emerging economies will change global patterns of trade and power and exercise a growing cultural influence. Technology will continue to transform our lives and businesses and create new opportunities – think of the impact the internet has had in the last 15 years. People’s attitudes to resource shortages, climate change and sustainability, and their levels of disposable income, will affect consumer demand. How governments act, or fail to act, on trade, economics, the environment and poverty, and how they coordinate action on these and other global issues will also have a huge impact. They cover a wide range of issues and pose some searching questions: The future is likely to be dramatically different from today. We have created four scenarios, exploring the challenges ahead for the fashion industry and its current business models.

• How will the industry react to shortages of cotton and other raw materials?
• How could the fashion workforce be affected by shifting supply chains and technological development?
• How might technology influence fashion and change the way it is produced and sold?
• How will people care for their clothes in a future of water shortages and high energy prices?
• How could reuse and remanufacturing of clothing develop as a response to higher demand and prices?

The four scenarios explore worlds where globalisation has progressed or gone into reverse and where society and its fashions change more rapidly than today.

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