Study Details Baseline Needs to Bring Factories into Compliance with Labor Standards
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have conducted an in-depth study to establish all of the actions apparel factories will need to take in order to come into compliance with international labor standards. The study is a first step toward determining what such compliance would cost consumers, and building support for making the needed changes.
该研究的相应作者罗布·汉德菲尔德(Rob Handfield)说:“人们谈论提高服装工厂工人的标准,但要做的是一笔费用。”“如果我们真的想提高标准,我们需要确定这些费用是多少,并为支付这些费用提供支持。
“本文为这项工作奠定了基础。它无法计算精确的成本,但是 - 首次概述了在服装工厂需要完成的所有事情,以遵守国际劳工标准:公平薪水,工作条件,消防安全等。”Handfield是美国北卡罗来纳州普尔管理学院的美国银行杰出运营和供应链管理教授。
在研究中,研究人员对15名具有审核服装工厂经验的专业人员进行了调查,以确定他们遵守国际劳工标准的程度。该调查的目的是确定所有工厂需要执行的所有行动,以最少符合这些标准,并特别关注会产生费用的行动。
研究人员对每个研究参与者进行了多轮调查,以确保对相关问题有深入的了解。
该论文的第一作者和以前的博士学位作者雷贾尔·哈桑(Rejaul Hasan)说:“这里有八个国际劳工标准适用,我们能够确定各种措施。”北卡罗来纳州的学生。“但是,与每个标准相关的成本数量因工厂而异,具体取决于他们可能已经采取的行动(如果有的话)。”
这项研究的合着者玛格丽特·摩尔(Marguerite Moore)说:“这是与工厂最低限度遵守国际标准相关的所有潜在成本的第一个详细分类学。”State’s Wilson College of Textiles. “So this is a big step forward. But it’s a first step forward.”
该团队的即将进行的研究将分类法应用于各个工厂,以了解每个工厂的成本。研究人员还计划使用分类法来确定每个成品服装的成本的合规性。
哈桑说:“最终,所有这些都将为我们了解与负责任采购相关的变更需要做的理解。”“在政策变更方面,我们需要什么?我们需要品牌和投资者什么?需要做些什么来促进消费者的支持?”
Handfield说:“如果我们想实施真正的变化,我们需要解决所有这些问题。”
研究, ”Establishing Operational Norms for Labor Rights Standards Implementation in Low-Cost Apparel Production,”在期刊上公开访问已发布可持续性。
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给编辑的注释:研究摘要如下。
“Establishing Operational Norms for Labor Rights Standards Implementation in Low-Cost Apparel Production”
作者:Rejaul Hasan,Marguerite Moore和Robert Handfield,北卡罗来纳州立大学
出版:11月2日,可持续性
doi:10.3390/su132112120
抽象的:低成本生产推动了许多全球服装brands and retailers to source apparel from less developed countries. However, low-cost apparel production is often accompanied by labor rights violations. A persistent pattern of labor rights violations exists in the global apparel supply chains, including minimum wage violations, unpaid overtime, forced overtime, worker abuse, restricting workers’ unions, and many other violations. Research suggests that low-cost pressures restrict factory level resources, which often leads to labor rights violations in global apparel supply chains. To date, academics and practitioners remain unaware of the actual cost of implementing labor rights standards in factories. We sought to establish a baseline taxonomy of the fundamental cost-bearing activities required to provide a safe and ethical factory workplace. A Delphi survey was adopted to capture data from an expert group of experienced factory compliance auditors in Asian apparel production. The research provides practical insights for factory adoption of actions that can improve enforcement of multiple labor standards, as well as specific actions required to enforce unique requirements that arose in our analysis.
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