ACT at the OECD Garment and Footwear Forum 2025

Join ACT at the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector 2025

Online side session: Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement Through Supply Chain Industrial Relations for Collective Bargaining

📅 10 Feb 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 CET

This session will showcase the central role that industrial relations structure can play in securing meaningful stakeholder engagement in garment and footwear supply chains and highlight how these structures lead to the first ever brand-supported collective bargaining agreements in the industry.

Connecting global and local voices, the session will explore the perspectives of the investor community, global brands, IndustriALL Global Union as well as local trade unions and employers from Cambodia.

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On-site: Increasing sector capacity to measure responsible purchasing practices

📅 11 Feb 2025  | 11:00 – 12:15 CET | Room CC9

With responsible purchasing practices an expectation of companies in due diligence legislation, there is an opportunity to build on a decade of learning and practice and make responsible purchasing practices a hallmark of the sector. However, is the sector ready? Panellists will discuss this through the lens of measuring progress on purchasing practices: what will it take to move towards common metrics and monitoring approaches to build greater transparency, comparability and overall uptake of company practice in this area?

Speakers

• Lotta Amsén, Head of Sustainability, Sandqvist Bags & Items ACT
• Florian Woitek-Kießlilng, Head of Unit, German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
• Fazlee Shamim Ehsan, Executive President, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BKMEA)
• Bea Ruoff, Head of Operations, Accountability and Monitoring, ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation)
• Hilary Marsh, Garment Policy Advisor, Transform Trade
• Lisa Süss, Head of Industry Alignment, Fair Wear Foundation

On-site partner-led session: Unlocking Win-Win through Supply Chain Industrial Relations

📅 12 Feb 2025 | 15:30 – 16:30 | Room D

The session will explore the supply chain industrial relations framework which enabled employers, trade unions and global brands in Cambodia to establish the first collective bargaining agreements on wages supported by legally-binding brand agreements on commercial commitments.

Speakers

• Christina Hajagos-Clausen, IndustriALL Global Union
• Elva Lopez Mourelo, International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• Ken Loo, Textile, Apparel, Footwear & Travel Goods Association in Cambodia (TAFTAC)
• Athit Kong, Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU)
• Mira Neumaier, Executive Director, ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation)

More speakers to be confirmed

• Moderator: Dorothy Lovell, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD