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Levi Strauss resigns from ETI

20/02/2007
 
Levi Strauss & Co. has resigned from the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) following its suspension from the organisation for refusing to adopt the ‘Living Wage’ provision of Section 5.1 of the ETI Base Code. The company claimed that it could not responsibly commit to the provision because it did not believe it could implement it with its suppliers and did not believe it would be possible to resolve this disagreement with ETI within the 12-month suspension.

Section 5.1 of the Base Code states that, “Wages and benefits paid for a standard working week meet, at a minimum, national legal standards or industry benchmark standards, whichever is higher. In any event, wages should always be enough to meet basic needs and to provide some discretionary income.”

Levi’s was suspended from ETI membership in December after two years of discussions with ETI’s tripartite Membership Disciplinary Panel.


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