H&M recognizes that the frequent use of short-term employment, known as fixed duration contracts, in the Cambodian garment industry is a breach of workers’ rights. Furthermore, it will indirectly have a negative effect on other fundamental rights such as Freedom of Association. H&M firmly believes that employees in the garment industry should have the right to legal employment contracts…Today, a majority of the employees at the supplier factories in Cambodia are employed on fixed duration contracts due to many years of misinterpretation of the labour legislation. Such a frequent use of fixed duration contracts is not acceptable for H&M…To achieve a change towards un-fixed duration contracts that are valid for an unlimited time, H&M has implemented stricter requirements towards the suppliers that we work with…