The minimum wage for ready-made garments workers would be set higher than that proposed by the factory owners, State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian said today.
The strategic location at the crossroads of South Asia and close proximity to the Gulf countries make Pakistan a promising regional market. In order to take advantage of this, Government of Pakistan recently unveiled an elaborated Economic Revival Plan to tackle the economic hardships of the country.
Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial district of Gazipur on Tuesday to demand better wages.
Textile waste management specialist Reverse Resources (RR) and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) have launched a programme to scale up textile-to-textile recycling in India. Established primarily to address the issue of a poorly performing waste-handling sector in the country, the partnership also aims to improve the quality and commercial viability of textile-to-textile recycled products.
Global brands and trade unions have renewed the International Accord to enhance health and safety in supply chains in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other countries in the future.
For the last three decades, the advent of "fast fashion" has disrupted the traditional fashion cycles by capitalizing on retailers' and consumers' responsiveness to the novelty of new fashion trends. Some fast fashion retailers go as far as delivering new apparel designs every two weeks—about 26 times per year, or 13 times more than traditional fashion.
UK responsible sourcing show Source Fashion expects to double in size in 2024 with more than 320 exhibitors from around the world, including three new sourcing destinations.
It looks and feels like children's playdough, but this colourful clay being made in a lab at Deakin University in Geelong, is actually old clothing. For the past five years, scientists at the university's Institute for Frontier Materials have been trialling different methods to figure out the best way to recycle Australia's growing textile waste.
In 2022, the world began to emerge from the chaos of a global pandemic that wreaked havoc on farm and factory workers worldwide. During this transition to “the new normal,” one core question remained: How could FLA members and staff continue to translate uncertainty and change into responsiveness, resilience, and growth, and raise the bar for human rights in global supply chains?
Key takeaways from Patagonia's first 50 years in operation, including insights from Vincent Stanley, director of Patagonia philosophy.
“There is one innovation which doesn’t require technology that we haven’t tried: treating each other as equals.” I have always loved this quote from my old boss and mending hero Orsola de Castro, because its simplicity reminds me of how much time we all spend intellectualising sustainable fashion, when at its root, basic human decency is the key to unlocking a better system
Pre-loved fashion platform Vestiaire Collective bans 30 fashion brands from its platform as part of its three-year plan to stop selling fast fashion items altogether and tackle the industry's waste problem.
Garment worker protests, a brutal police crackdown, worker deaths, arrests and repression, and finally, an official minimum wage announcement that is far below living wage levels. For anyone who follows Bangladesh’s minimum wage negotiations, it’s like watching a preventable crash in slow-motion. There were similar worker protests and subsequent police crackdowns in 2016 and 2019.
Freedom from discrimination based on gender is a universal human right and one of the core labor standards of the ILO. It appears in several global instruments: the ILO’s 1958 Convention 111 (Discrimination in Employment and Occupation), its 2019 Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment, and the 1979 United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
The USFIA's Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference revealed how the US Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act is being enforced and the role technology can play in proving the source of imported apparel and textiles.
Minimum wage protests in Dhaka continue as workers’ demand of a higher minimum wage remains unmet. Police has been violently breaking down the protests and to date four workers have been killed and several others seriously injured. Police has registered over 60 criminal cases, in which nearly a hundred workers have been arrested, including six local union leaders.
Le Tien Truong, chairman of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group, said that the demand will improve overall in 2024 but the improvement will not be very significant.
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) assessed 55 of the world’s most influential apparel companies, including Adidas, Fast Retailing, Kering, SHEIN, and VF Corporation, in its 2023 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and Gender Benchmark.
Your essential wayfinder for the UN’s flagpole climate change conference, by veterans from the sustainable fashion space.
Swedish retailer H&M has become the first major fashion company to increase the prices it pays for orders from Bangladesh to reflect the new increase in the minimum wage for garment workers. The new minimum wage of BDT 12,500 ($114) a month represents a 56% increase from the BDT 8,000 ($75) which had been in place since 2018 - although unions and campaigners say it is still not enough to meet basic needs.
