Per ThorsheimUS gov asks european suppliers to guarantee they don't do DEI.
Next: we ask US to guarantee they do fair pay, 5 weeks paid annual vacation and 1 year paid maternity leave.
Hilde Austlid@thorsheim Seriously, we should set some minimum requirements of decent working conditions for all imports, no matter where they're from.
Andreas K@hildeaustlid @thorsheim Actually the EU wanted to, but our industry lobby managed to stop the supply chain law I think.
And the national level ones, e.g. in Germany, got watered down.
It's ridiculous hard to make a profit when the end of the supply chain is responsible for ensuring European work standards are applied from the start for your ultra-cheap fast fashion.
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸@yacc143 @hildeaustlid @thorsheim And since we measure success by growth of GDP instead of any quality of life markers letting anything bigger fail (like fast fashion industry) is never an option…
Saupreiss #Präparat500 🗽I have been told that at present it’s close to impossible to guarantee even minimal Standards for quality wear even if the industry wanted to and I tend to believe that.
It would improve when they’re forced to, because it creates a market, while disrupting another one.
Filip@yacc143
The European law has been passed recently (although watered down from what we had hoped but it's way better than nothing!) It's called the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD): https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/sustainability-due-diligence-responsible-business/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence_en As a directive, it still needs to be implemented by member states in order to have an effect. And it's already under massive political attack
@hildeaustlid @thorsheim
The European law has been passed recently (although watered down from what we had hoped but it's way better than nothing!) It's called the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD): https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/sustainability-due-diligence-responsible-business/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence_en As a directive, it still needs to be implemented by member states in order to have an effect. And it's already under massive political attack
@hildeaustlid @thorsheim
@yacc143
The German law (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, LkSG) which predates the CSDDD is weaker in some important respects, e.g. it doesn't have liability so people in the supply chain can't directly sue companies based on this law, but stronger in others. It's also threatened politically so we must fight for both this year
@hildeaustlid @thorsheim
The German law (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, LkSG) which predates the CSDDD is weaker in some important respects, e.g. it doesn't have liability so people in the supply chain can't directly sue companies based on this law, but stronger in others. It's also threatened politically so we must fight for both this year
@hildeaustlid @thorsheim