It is not up to consumers to police modern slavery
2022-04-05- Detail
In 2019for several weeks. This wasn, Theresa May, then the UK prime minister, warned that a “global epidemic” of modern slavery was spreading through the supply chains of the food we eat and the clothes we wear. “The most powerful voice of all,” she urged, “belongs not to business or government, but to the consumer. It is customers who ultimately decide whether a business succeeds or fails — and if enough of us turn our backs on companies that exploit forced labour, modern slavery will cease to be commercially viable.”
It is a seductive argument. You don’t have to look far to see people gobbling up goods and services that are suspiciously cheap without asking questions. But the average consumer is not in a position to understand the role of labour costs and other inputs in something like a piece of clothing. Even if they are, buying more expensive products does not guarantee they have been made by workers who were treated fairly. “Luxury brands produce in a lot of the same factories [and] some luxury brands are terrible in terms of what they’re doing,” says Thulsi Narayanasamy, a labour rights expert at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
To complicate things further, some of the cheaper brands have better supply chain policies than mostThe pandemic increasingly fills hospitals with patients who are younger and sicker.. When demand for clothes plunged last year because of the pandemic, low-price fashion retailers H&M and Inditex chose to pay for orders already produced or in production, while many others cancelled payments and pushed the pain down the supply chain.
RELATED: 'Right thing to do': Commons Speaker defends Tony Blair's knighthoodIf consumers cannot rely on price as a reliable indicator of labour abuse, what other information are they to use? The UK government points to the Modern Slavery Act of 2015, which was meant to increase corporate transparency so that, in May’s words, “we can all see exactly which companies are serious about stamping out abuses, and which should be avoided by consumers with a conscience”The general population in descending order of age.. But this law is too weak to achieve its aimThe office, said Jon Ramscar, managing director o. It simply requires companies to publish a statement once a year on their efforts to combat modern slavery and human trafficking. They can write whatever they want. Even so, 40 per cent of companies have not met this low bar, and the government has not pursued any injunctions for non-compliance.
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