OECD Handbook on Due Diligence for Enabling Living Incomes and Living Wages in Global Supply Chains in the Agricultural, Garment and Footwear Sectors

Overview

The Handbook aims to help companies identify and address living income and wage risks across all sizes, locations, and supply chain positions in the focus sectors.

This Handbook demonstrates how responsible business conduct and the due diligence framework can be applied to address living income and living wage gaps by contextualising existing recommendations. The Handbook covers both living income and living wages as these concepts are intertwined. The Handbook can support companies in understanding whether they are associated with significant risks and impacts related to living income and living wages and where so, in responding to those impacts, regardless of their size, geographic location, and position in the supply chain. Income and wage risks and impacts are prevalent in the focus sectors. 

Following introductory chapters to living incomes, wages and due diligence, the Handbook leads readers through the six-step risk-based due diligence framework, answering specific questions on how business can address living income and living wage gaps under each of the steps. Additional resources and tools are listed in the annex.

This publication is accessible online.

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