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Evaluations and Audits

Because many of the multiple retailers are concerned about abuses of workers in their supplier companies, they require them to have an independent third party evaluation on Ethical Trading. In the United Kingdom this is usually against the ETI Base Code, although an alternative which may be required in some countries is the Standard of Social Accountability (SA) 8000, which was launched in 1998 by The Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency (Now known as Social Accountability International).

The topics covered in the ETI Base Code are:

Results from evaluations, which we have been doing over the past year, show clearly that major non-compliances are quite common.

Workers may be at risk because working conditions are not safe and hygienic. The National Minimum Wage is not always paid, and workers may be expected to work excessively long hours.

However, the abuses can be much worse with casual labour supplied by an outside agency.

Public concern was alerted with the Morecambe Bay incident and this proved to be a key factor leading to the new GANGMASTER legislation. As a consequence, all gangmasters will have to be licensed when the newly established agency is up and running.

It has been recognised that the ETI Base Code is not really appropriate for evaluations of gangmasters/labour providers, and so the ETI has done considerable development work resulting in the preparation of a Code of Practice for Labour Providers.

We Provide Full Evaluations and Audits for companies wishing to become Ethcial Traders. Please feel free to contact us to discuss this an other Ethical Trading issues

See also our Ethical Trading Training Courses


 

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