Better Work explores ways to help make garment factories more environmentally compliant
A Better Work initiative is exploring ways to help garment manufacturers make their factories more environmentally compliant.
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Better Work Jordan’s Productivity Project improves working conditions and business efficiency
Better Work Jordan’s SME Productivity Project has designed specific, productivity-enhancing toolkits to train both workers and managers in the garment industry.
Better Work Jordan and the General Trade Union of Workers in Textile, Garment and Clothing Industries sign a Memorandum of Understanding
The Memorandum of Understanding between Better Work Jordan and The General Trade Union of Workers in Textile, Garment and Clothing Industries was signed on 11 April,2018.
Onward: Better Work Jordan’s efforts to enhance gender equality in the global garment industry
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, held earlier this March, and as part of Better Work’s global efforts to empower women in the garment industry, Better Work Jordan profiles five graduates of the organization’s three-day “Supervisory Skills Training” (SST) programme to celebrate their journey to success.
Better Work releases a study on the regulatory framework for using heavy machinery in Jordan
With the aim of analyzing existing policies and identifying amendments, Better Work Jordan (BWJ) partnered with a legal expert in labor affairs to release a study titled, “The Regulatory Framework For Using Heavy Machinery in Jordan.”
New report ‘shines a light’ on gender dynamics in Cambodia’s garment factories
Balancing paid work and family care is a major challenge for women workers in Cambodia’s garment sector but investing in practical solutions to enhance gender equality is good for business as well as for workers, their families and their communities.
Better Work launches strategy to enhance gender equality in the garment industry
Joint UN-World Bank Group programme shows that gender equality can also translate into increased productivity.
‘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.
Healthy Mother Healthy Child advocacy project brings good nutrition practices to the factory floor
Better Work Bangladesh helps new mothers stay healthy and continue to earn
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.
