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Report

17 Jul 2023

Author:
Fashion Revolution (UK)

Fashion Transparency Index 2023

The annual Fashion Transparency Index reviews brands’ public disclosure on human rights and environmental issues across 258 indicators in 5 key areas:

  1. Policies & Commitments
  2. Governance
  3. Supply Chain Traceability
  4. Know, Show & Fix
  5. Spotlight Issues, which this year are:
  • Decent work, covering: forced labour, living wages, purchasing practices, unionisation, and collective bargaining
  • Gender & racial equality
  • Sustainable sourcing & materials
  • Overconsumption, business models, waste & circularity
  • Water & chemicals
  • Climate change, fossil fuels & biodiversity

Key results:

  • 41% of brands disclose their approach to recruitment fees in the supply chain
  • 6% of brands disclose the number of workers in the supply chain affected by the payment of recruitment fees or related costs
  • 23% of brands disclose data on the prevalence of modern slavery related violations and risk factors
  • 36% of brands disclose gender pay gap in their own operations
  • 4% of brands disclose ethnicity pay gap data in their own operations
  • 7% of brands publish actions focusing on the promotion of racial and ethnic equality in supplier facilities
  • 5% of brands disclose a method for ringfencing labour costs in price negotiations
  • 2% of brands disclose the number of orders where labour costs were ring-fenced
  • 28% of brands publish approach to living wages for supply chain workers
  • 1% of brands disclose the number of supply chain workers that are being paid a living wage