LAW 533 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Factory Records, Corporate Social Responsibility, Joe Fresh
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Chapter 8: csr, the apparel sector, the supply chain and the law: Retailers outsourcing their supply chain allow them to contract with the lowest bidder, have short-term product by product contracts can achieve this as long as the level of quality is maintained. Many consumers are not so interested/ concerned in what goes on in the supply chain. Ngo + third party standards and certification entitles are more concerned. P. 8-2: chronology of gildan activewear el progreso case-maquila solidarity. 2001-02 msn and honduran independent monitoring team(emih) carried out a joint research on the investment strategy + labor practices of t-shirt manufacture gildan activewear. Gildan presents cbc with a affidavit signed by its employees at honduran stating that their allegations are lies and that they were pressured by the cbc reporter to lie. November 2002 msn tries to engage with gildan concerning their. Msn+emih research in order to get them to review and comment on the first draft of the research report.