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Retailers press for human rights and environmental checks on supply chains
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Tesco, John Lewis, Primark, Asos and the Co-op are calling on the government to introduce a legal requirement for companies to carry out human rights and environmental checks on their global supply chains.
Such “failure to prevent” legislation could potentially fend off scandals such as the poor treatment of workers in Leicester factories supplying the fast fashion group Boohoo uncovered last year.
A review commissioned for the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) suggests that if such legislation was in place, Boohoo could have been found liable.
After reports of low pay and poor factory conditions in Leicester last year, Boohoo commissioned a report by Alison Levitt QC which found that the allegations were “substantially true”.
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