Global garment companies failing to deliver on living wage promises to workers, study finds

By Sophie Armour, University of Sheffield

Global garment companies are failing to meet living wage promises to workers, according to a study published by researchers at the University of Sheffield today (30 May 2019).

Over the last decade, leading global corporations have made commitments to deliver living wages to the workers who make their clothes.

But an investigation by researchers at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield found that many companies do not have concrete, measurable action plans for achieving a living wage in their global supply chains, or benchmarks for calculating living wage rates.

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