Tell Clarks and Stylo who foots the bill

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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 14:00

"Who Foots the Bill?" is a campaign run jointly by Labour Behind the Label and Homeworkers Worldwide, to persuade companies including Clarks and Stylo to acknowledge the presence of homeworkers in their supply chains, ensuring that they work in decent conditions and have access to their rights.

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Dear Mr Ziff and Mr Bolliger,

Homework is real work and deserves to be recognised. Homeworkers should be treated equally with other workers and get a living wage, basic social protection, the right to organise, and be provided with regular and stable work. Homeworking is widespread in footwear supply chains. Therefore I urge you to take the following actions:

  • Identify and acknowledge that home-based production exists in your supply chain.
  • Ensure that your code of conduct and monitoring and verification systems explicitly include homeworkers.
  • Join the Ethical Trading Initiative and work with others to address homeworker issues.

I look forward to hearing what steps you have taken to ensure the rights of homeworkers are protected.

Sincerely