Social Compliance Archives

Ben Skinner Speaks at the 2022 Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards have become a critical tool for investors, employees, and customers to hold companies accountable for sustainability and social responsibility. They indicate the strength of a company’s management and probability of long-term financial success, and companies have an incentive to bolster their performance on these metrics. However, there is often […]

Uncovering Audit Deception: Countering Hidden Social Compliance Violations

“Sophie Broach, an investigations analyst at the global workers’ rights advocate Transparentem, writes about the nonprofit organization’s investigations into forced labor, child labor and other human rights abuses in economies in Asia, including India, Malaysia and Myanmar, which revealed the seriousness and prevalence of audit deception.”

Tech-Driven Tools To Uncover Labor Exploitation

“The report Hidden Harm: Audit Deception in Apparel Supply Chains and the Urgent Case for Reform, by the nonprofit organization Transparentem, documents many cases of deception during social audits in India, Malaysia, and Myanmar.”

Sweatshop Conditions Hide Behind Low-Quality Monitoring, Report Says

“In interviews at almost 20 factories and spinning mills in India, Malaysia and Myanmar, Transparentem investigators learned that employers routinely hid underage workers during audits, coached them to lie about their ages, or gave them modified identity documents to make them look older.”

Supply chain audit deception ‘common’ – report

Audit deception is common in global apparel supply chains according to a new report from the Transparentem nonprofit which calls for urgent reform. The report, entitled Hidden Harm, revisits previous investigations by the organisation which seeks to uncover and eradicate labour and environmental abuses in supply chains.

Fashion, Xinjiang and the Perils of Supply Chain Transparency

Brandie Sasser, the vice-president of strategic engagement at Transparentem, a US non-profit that investigates environmental and human rights violations in… fashion supply chains, says this is already happening. While she has seen a slew of brands move away from Xinjiang cotton since the Trump ban, “companies have been much more nervous about what they put […]

Civil society organisations call on policymakers to define meaningful supply chain reporting requirements

Corporate sustainability transparency is a complex issue, which requires a careful selection of meaningful reporting requirements. Due to the climate… emergency and the advances in science and political agreements, there is greater clarity on which climate metrics and targets, as well as risk management-related information should be disclosed. However, there is less agreement on how […]

Sourcing from Myanmar Requires Extraordinary Due Diligence. Here’s Why

As fashion brands and retailers begin to reset and reshape their supply chains as they emerge from the global coronavirus… pandemic, a new multi-year investigation has identified some of the risks at stake when sourcing from garment factories in Myanmar. Highlighted exclusively here on just-style, child labour and audit deception are among the ongoing challenges.