Purchasing Practices: Case studies to address impacts of purchasing practices on working conditions

Report from ETI members' meeting, 29 November 2007

This report sets out some of the key issues presented and discussed at the ETI members' meeting on 29th November 2007. The meeting provided a forum for members to explore potential solutions to some of the common purchasing practices which undermine working conditions in the supply chain. The meeting comprised presentations and workshops, during which members discussed real-life examples of purchasing practices and their impacts. This report includes details of the case studies discussed during the meeting, along with the possible solutions identified by members. It also sets out how the case studies could be used as a practical tool to help improve purchasing practices along supply chains

Available for download at http://www.ethicaltrade.org/Z/lib/2007/11/pp-forum/index.shtml