The EHRC report released earlier this week into recruitment and employment in the meat and poultry processing sector provides the latest authoritative evidence that conditions for some workers in the industry are very poor.
ETI has launched a new ethical trade training course for buying staff, designed to help companies drive ethical trade to the heart of the way they do business.
A wide-ranging ethical trade action plan has been agreed with fashion retailer Primark following the conclusion of an in-depth inquiry commissioned by the Ethical Trading Initiative.
An ETI members' meeting to discuss proposals for an Asia-wide 'floor wage' for garment workers has increased momentum for collective action to raise workers' wages in global supply chains.
A roundtable discussion held by ETI on 10 DEcember 2009, saw leading garment making brands share experiences of improving their purhcasing practices in order to improve conditions for workers.
The violence that has erupted across the Bangladeshi garment industry over the past week is "another damning indictment of the state of workers' conditions in the industry," ETI Director Dan Rees said today (3 July 2009).