EXPERTS URGE FASTER PACE TOWARD SUSTAINABLE GARMENT INDUSTRY AT YANGON CONFERENCE
January 1st, 2017
AS the global clothing and textile industry looks towards a 2017 where trade relations are unpredictable, Sweden’s Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has been stressing the need to maintain stability on the factory front, by improving labour relations.
A recent conference hosted by H&M, in the key new emerging market and outsourcing centre of Myanmar, heard that while support for more sustainable labour practices is growing the clothing sector, the pace of actual reforms needs to intensify to secure more mature industrial relations within the industry, ...
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