Ririh and the pink room: How investing in breastfeeding facilities benefits workers, their babies and business
High performing factory progressively improve services for pregnant and breastfeeding employees.
Piece rate pay brings mixed results for garment workers, new study shows
Study shows that while payment by performance can bring higher wages, poorly designed piece rate systems have negative impacts on workers.
Better Work Indonesia helps communicate employment rules across the country’s garment industry
Social dialogue helps industry tackle long-standing issue with workers’ contracts
Factories get creative to promote workplace safety
A competition helps to raise awareness of Safe Workplaces in the garment factories and increase participation of OSH committee, managers, and trade union in OSH related initiatives.
Indonesia Business Forum 2018: Scaling up collaboration to achieve greater impact
Indonesia’s garment sector is ranked among the top ten largest textile producing countries and the main contributor to the national economy. The ILO-BWI programme continuously empowers local garment business to be succeed in global garment industry through its annual Indonesia Business Forum.
Latest research: firms see benefits to bottom line from Better Work
A new working paper supports the business case for engaging with Better Work
‘Amplifying Impact’ – Better Work’s ambitious strategy for the next five years
Better Work launches a step-change five-year strategy to significantly increase its impact in the global garment industry.
Better Work collaborates with Disney to promote good working conditions in factories
Better Work and Disney have teamed up in an effort to improve factory working conditions. The partnership led to trainings for 201 managers from 115 licensee companies that in turn contract some 2,447 factories.
Switzerland commits to improving working conditions in the global garment industry
On the first day of the World Trade Organization’s “Aid for Trade” conference taking place from 11-13 July, Switzerland has announced that it will continue to support Better Work with a contribution of 12 million Swiss francs (12,470,000 US dollars) between 2017 and 2021.
Symposium highlights new ways to modernize labour inspections in Indonesia
The International Labour Organization and the Indonesia Ministry of Manpower are co-hosting a symposium to promote innovation in labour law compliance.
