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Article

23 Dec 2008

Author:
Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Moving toward Social Justice in the Supply Chain

The Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP) has released a new Reference Code aimed at helping companies work in partnership with nongovernmental organizations to address the challenges of social justice in the supply chain...GSCP was formed in December 2006 by Carrefour, Metro, Migros, Tesco and Wal-Mart. Since then, Hasbro, Hewlett Packard and Ikea have joined the executive board...GSCP is building a set of reference tools (the Reference Code, audit system and methodology, auditor competence) that describe best practices and provide a common interpretation of fair labor requirements and their implementation...The objective is to provide a clear and common set of requirements for all suppliers of consumer goods in terms of fair labor conditions in the global supply chain...