LAW 533 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Joe Fresh, Worker Rights Consortium, Sa8000
17 Apr 2017
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> headquartered in montreal, canada, but manufactures its apparel in developing countries (i. e. el salvador) because it"s cheaper. By whom: msn & honduras independent team(?) > investigated gildan factories: cbc wrote an expose. What have been gildan"s responses: during the shareholder meeting, you can use a shareholder propose to address the issues. What are the legal aspects of this situation: sa8000 -> a standard that stipulates worker protections to ensure that they are not treated poorly. It is a standard, but it"s not a law. Msn is accusing gildan with bad practices, which may be detrimental to their reputation: gildan is accepted in the fair labour association (fla), which is a labour-oriented organization that investigates in companies" wrongdoings. Fla is a competing organization to saa1000, which proposes a set of standards. Both require the agreement to terms, that companies can be subject to investigations (and if failed, they will be kicked out/their membership will be revoked)
