Response by H&M
...The H&M group does not own any factories. Our products are made by independent suppliers, based in many countries across the world, including several in Europe... [A]ll our 1st tier suppliers (product manufacturers and the processing factories subcontracted by them) must sign our Sustainability Commitment if they want to start or continue working with us. The Sustainability Commitment [...] expresses the fundamental expectations, or minimum requirements, our suppliers need to meet to start or continue doing business with the H&M group. These fundamental requirements include payment of legally required minimum wages, or wages agreed upon in a collective bargaining agreement, whichever is higher...
The Sustainability Commitment is applicable to, and signed by, all H&M suppliers, in Europe as well as in other parts of the world. For a full list of our suppliers please see our public supplier list here...
If a supplier is found to be violating our minimum requirements we have a system in place that enables us to give the appropriate consequences to the supplier... Minimum requirement violations will result in business consequences and repeated violations will result in a termination of the business relationship and phase out of the factory...