{"id":1032,"date":"2021-03-16T08:33:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T02:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:33:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T02:33:03","slug":"fashion-brands-urged-to-fix-broken-industry-with-pledge-on-workers-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Fashion brands urged to fix &#8216;broken industry&#8217; with pledge on workers&#8217; pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion brands should fix their &#8220;broken industry&#8221; by ensuring millions of pandemic-hit workers receive their full wages and by guaranteeing severance pay if jobs are cut, a coalition of more than 200 rights groups said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The PayYourWorkers campaign said brands and retailers that made a profit in 2020 &#8211; like Nike, Amazon and Next &#8211; could stop garment workers &#8220;going hungry&#8221; and set up a severance fund by paying manufacturers the equivalent of $0.10 more per t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the minimum brands should do on the way to the living wages which must become the standard of a post-pandemic recovery,&#8221; said Ineke Zeldenrust from the Clean Clothes Campaign, a coalition member. &#8220;This proposal is achievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although manufacturers in some countries do pay workers severance if they lose their jobs, factory owners often come under pressure when a brand suddenly withdraws orders, which ultimately affects the worker, researchers say. Fashion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion brands should fix their &#8220;broken industry&#8221; by ensuring millions of pandemic-hit workers receive their full wages and by guaranteeing severance pay if jobs are cut, a coalition of more than 200 rights groups said on Monday. The PayYourWorkers campaign said brands and retailers that made a profit in 2020 &#8211; like Nike, Amazon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}