How far down the subcontracting chain does our responsibility
as a company go?
The CCC takes the position that a company's
responsibility encompasses its complete subcontracting
chain all the way down to garment home workers.
Subcontracting is a system used to reduce
costs or enhance flexibility by contracting
work out to suppliers in whose factories workers
often suffer from worse conditions and more
labour rights violations than in the buyer
company. Restricting compliance of the code
to only one or a limited number of tiers of
suppliers could actually result in more subcontracting
to suppliers whose workers are not covered
by the code of conduct.
The CCC does not have the capacity to challenge
clothes producers or retailers on the conditions
in cotton production or in fibre, cloth
or thread-producing textile factories, which
have their own specific problems.
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