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Fair trade at work
Switching your workplace to fair trade provides benefits for you, your organisation and for workers and farmers in developing countries. Here’s how Traidcraft can help your organisation make the switch.
For many organizations the terms Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have shifted from trendy business buzzwords to practical realisation. The evolution of CSR is moving swiftly with the recent Companies Act 2006* and pressure from shareholders, investors, pressure groups, employees and customers is increasing such that nearly 70% of FTSE100 companies produce a sustainability or CSR report in addition to Annual Accounts.
As part of our mission to fight poverty through trade Traidcraft seeks to assist workplaces to make genuine changes that demonstrate their commitment to social and environmental impact, and that will benefit small businesses in the developing world that are blighted by unfair trade rules and practices.
These are some of the steps we suggest to improve the impact of your business on people in developing countries.
Add your voiceChildren have such a strong sense of justice – they tell us that they don’t understand why all trade isn’t fair.
*Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 requires directors to ‘have regard to their impacts on their employees, relationships with suppliers, customers, impact on the environment.’ They are also required to include information on these issues in their annual business review.
