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Top clothing brands join hands to improve working conditions

A new initiative that seeks to improve working conditions in clothing manufacturing around the globe has been launched by Levi's, H&M, Nike and Adidas, among a group of clothing brands.

Organised by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the project aims to organise various audits and assessments that manufacturers need to comply with into one standardised assessment. This initiative, according to the industry, will greatly curtail expenses on duplicated auditing and invest the same saved to improve social welfare for workers.

In a statement made by SAC, its mentioned that with brands and retailers applying their own slightly different standards, manufacturers are allocating valuable resources to manage a steady stream of audits. This duplication reduces the value of audits and consumes resources that could otherwise be applied to making improvements, along with contributing to ‘audit fatigue’.

SAC called for collaboration among brands to reach a common social assessment standard, method or tool for social and labour performance measurement in apparel and footwear supply chains. It believes that this effort could be applied to other industries afterwards.

SAC also implemented a successful framework on environment, which seeks to provide an answer to calls from the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and a number of European countries for a standardised, global approach to improve the majorly dismal working conditions that persist in many areas of the global apparel supply chain.

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