We’re now starting the year of the Pig in China. It’s supposed to be a sign of prosperity, but the past months are not leading to such expectations. Growth is at its lowest for many years, while it has been the key indicator for the country. It has consequences on …
Greenwashing is well-known and widely found. So common actually, that it is sometimes mistaken as true commitment. We can wonder, in the picture above recently taken in the metro, if they were aware of the claim. This bag, telling fashion shouldn’t go to waste. Willingness to do greenwashing here is …
This month I am talking of an article released by The Guardian: “Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city.” This article describes the working conditions and the life of workers in one of the Foxconn units producing iPhones and others. It shows situation both usual and aberrant. Usual because when …
When we are working on social compliance, we have to work both from the legal or regulation point of view, but also from the cultural one. I often use below example to illustrate that. It’s about hygiene in the canteen. We have auditors from different origin. They are usually working …
While meeting brands representatives, we are often asked a recurrent question, especially when we talk with quality managers. Why don’t you apply the same method to improve working conditions than the one we use to improve quality? It makes sense to work directly with the factory by giving advice as …
Fashion is everywhere, even in vocabulary. It’s fun. But as fashion is also a picture of the society, it is also informative. “Post-truth” and “Disruptive” have been the words of the year 2016. Many companies have tried to bring disruptive changes in their products or processes. But it is obviously not …
This is the time of the year when traditionally people are looking back and making yearly review. This year we have decided to share on an aesthetic point of view too, as some pictures we take during audits are sometimes not only informative but nice too. We have also put …
In many countries, the average working time is actually quite higher than the legal working time. Overtime hours are frequent and often made on quite a regular basis. It is the case of Morocco where overtime hours are made almost every Friday evening. It is also the case of China …
We frequently base our newsletter on an example recently found during an audit. This month, we are taking an example ironically taken from an audit done the day of the release of last month “Hall of shame” which was a highly unjustified SA 8000 certification. This month, the factory was also …
I am upset. I probably shouldn’t as it is not being upset that will change anything, but I am upset anyway. Yesterday I worked on an audit report of a SA 8000 certified company. It was a very clean factory that looks very safe. But about 90% of the job positions …
