Fair wear and green buttons have signed a joint declaration of intent to scale the effective human rights and environmental trains diligence (HREDD) by aligning approaches and using their combined specialist knowledge.
Together, the initiatives hope to help more companies to take obligations in measures that benefit employees, the environment and reliable supply chains.
Annabel Meurs von Fair Wear says: “Our collaboration is about making more brands practical and accessible. By matching the green button, we give companies clearer ways to embed responsible practices in their operations – reduce the resilience, reduce the risks and to promote improvements for workers across the supply chains.”
Christine Moser-Priewich from Green Button adds: “The textile sector is standing with a decisive moment with mandatory but still developing care laws.
Green buttons and fair wear plan together in three key areas:
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Harmonization of standards: reduction in complexity for companies by further aligned the OECD-based requirements for the OECD-based organizations and at the same time ensure ambition and effects
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Common tools and aligned brand instructions: co-creation and parts of best practice and proven methods to facilitate the step-through level implementation of HREDD
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Credible and transparent accountability: Verification of ways to assess, verify, verify and lead to real improvements with the stakeholders and consumers.
The partnership already started with concrete advantages, including: Green Button companies now have access to Fair Wear's complaint mechanism and the Due Diligence Academy. At the same time, the two organizations work together on the standard revision process of the Green Button and increases the approaches to topics of the environment that benefit Fair Wear members.
The members of the responsible purchasing practices (RPP), which include Fair Wear and Solidaridad, have also presented a practical tool for the Due Diligence for Human Rights to help the purchase of brands.
It focuses on high-risk areas such as production planning, payment and contractual conditions as well as the costs for the responsibility bodies in order to jointly assess the practices of the accountability obligation. The RPP working group says that if it is widespread, it can help deliver more predictable production, safe wages and healthier working conditions.