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H&M teams up with ILO for workplace improvement in Ethiopia

08/02/2016
H&M teams up with ILO for workplace improvement in Ethiopia
Swedish retailer H&M, International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency have launched an industrial relations project aiming to improve the textile and garment industry in Ethiopia.

ILO highlighted the importance of promoting collective bargaining as necessary for workers to negotiate wages and working conditions.

The organisations will help the Ethiopian government, social partners and industry stakeholders to improve productivity as well as improve wages and working conditions.

“Well-functioning relations and social dialogue on the labour market is key to improve working conditions and establish fair living wages. We are engaged in projects which have the aim of strengthening employees’ rights and their ability to negotiate on their own behalf on their terms and conditions through trade unions and or democratic elected employee representatives.

"Our goal is for all of our strategic supplier factories to have democratically elected and functional workplace representation in place by 2018 at the latest,” said Anna Gedda, head of sustainability at H&M.

H&M has an ongoing industrial relation project in Cambodia in collaboration with SIDA and ILO.

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