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In its first Annual Report, ‘The importance of long-term investor engagement on living wage’, investor coalition PLWF presents the outcomes of the 54 living wage and living income assessments that it has conducted for investee companies. The members of the PLWF identify a number of key outcomes for the garment, footwear, food, agriculture and retail sectors,…

Interview with Andrea van der Kemp, Project & Supplier management at L. ten Cate  Dutch SME ten Cate has recently published a living wage gap analysis. This is a result of their first steps toward paying a living wage in production supply chains of their garments. Although it is not a publicly listed company, the…

Date: 28th October 2021 (both in person and online) Time:  14:30 – 19:00 PM CET Place: De Reehorst, Triodos IM Offices, Driebergen-Rijsenburg   Dear PLWF supporter, You are invited for the annual event of the Platform Living Wage Financials that takes place on 28th of October at De Reehorst, the office of Triodos Investment Management…

Today marks the 3-year anniversary of the Platform Living Wage Financials. On this date in 2018, eight Dutch financial institutions celebrated the formal launch at founding partner MN in The Hague, of their joint initiative to promote living wages in global supply chains. By starting to engage with investee companies on this systemic issue, the…

The PLWF is saddened by the news of Professor John Ruggie’s passing away. Mr Ruggie was the founder of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on which our methodology is so heavily built. The ‘Ruggie Principles’ are the foundation of our platform. We want to express our deepest respect and gratitude for…

On the 2nd of February, the Platform Living Wage Financials hosted a webinar on the Garment and Footwear sector and the effect of Covid-19 on living wage. The webinar was part of the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and focused on the investor’s perspective: How Covid-19 exacerbated the need to ensure workers’…

Join us in this webinar hosted by the Platform Living Wage Financials during the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector, taking place on February 2nd – 13-14h CET. We’ll share our engagement work with the fashion industry and discuss how COVID-19 exacerbated the need to ensure workers’ livelihoods and accelerate the payment of…

The Covid-19 pandemic has had immense impacts on the garment and footwear sector, including in global supply chains. For the PLWF, Covid has reinforced the need to accelerate the payment of living wages but has also necessitated the broadening of our assessment scope to account for the impacts of Covid-19 on garment workers globally. To…

Members of the Platform Living Wage Financials have prepared a joint letter addressed to the luxury goods sector: PLWF statement calling for improved transparency in the luxury fashion sector Why the PLWF has decided to launch a joint letter focusing at luxury goods companies The purpose of the letter is to call for increased transparency around…

The Platform Living Wage Financials (PLWF) remains a relatively young investor coalition. However, engaging and assessing companies in the garment and footwear sector for close to two years already offers interesting insights into the progress these companies have achieved, which areas of the assessment methodology have seen the most improvement and which the least, and…