Collected in collaboration with Fashion Revolution, the updated Fashion Checker data by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) reveals a large number of brands are still doing nothing or very little on transparency. Around 159 brands have received a 1 or 2-star rating, which indicates their failure to comply with the Transparency Pledge. Only 46 out of 264 brands have received five stars, meaning they disclose extra information about their supply chain – for example whether or not there is a union in the workplace.

While brands were also given the opportunity to inform Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) about any changes affecting their Living Wage scores, brands were not specifically surveyed on wage commitments and payment of living wage during the covid-19 pandemic, as reports show they fail to pay the legal minimum wage or pre-pandemic wages. Currently, only 5 brands claim to be paying living wages to as least some of the workers in their supply chains..

Lack of transparency in the global fashion supply chain has allowed brands to deny workers their legally owed wages and severance. For instance, workers in Cambodia were deprived of an estimated $109 million in wages during the April and May 2021 national lockdown. CCC estimates that workers globally are owed at least $11.85 billion during the year of the pandemic from March 2020 to March 2021.