Barriers to living wages differ among supply chain actors but the common thread to achieving them lies in collaboration. We can only succeed when every partner assumes responsibility and does their part. This new resource under our Roadmap on Living Wages, the Living Wage Action Guide, will support companies to close the living wage gap.
Explore how you can take action with your supply chain partners to close living wage gaps.
Learn and delve into the practical tips on what you can do on your own and where you need to collaborate with others.
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Living Wage Action Guide
Buyers’ Guidelines: Voluntary Contributions to Support Closing Living Wage Gaps
These guidelines are crafted for buyers, producers, verifiers, workers’ representatives and other supporting organisations that implement (or support the implementation of) voluntary contributions to reduce living wage gaps. The guidelines function as a practical, step-by-step set of recommendations that can support the implementation of such voluntary contributions. These are considered “living documents” that will be modified and improved based on any recommendations receive before the end of 2024. Afterwards, we will continue to collect further recommendations to improve future editions of these guidelines. We thank all the organisations linked to Roadmap on Living Wages who proactively contributed to the consultation that led to the development of these guidelines so far.
For additional recommendations on how to further improve these guidelines, please reach out to us at sanabria@idhtrade.org and copy academy@impactbuying. Your insights will be greatly valued.
Click on the links to access the guidelines to support voluntary contributions to reduce living wage gaps:
Call to Action: Business to Business
During the 2021 Living Wage Summit, together with a group of front-running companies we launched a Call to Action, from Business to Business, to build together a living wage economy. We believe that to secure living wages means investing in the future of business. We urge businesses to join us in our effort.
How to measure progress when addressing living wages?
IDH recommends stakeholders as they move through the Roadmap steps to monitor and publicly report progress against some Key Performance Indicators.
