What is unethical about H&M?
With ties to poor working conditions, forced labor scandals, and regular greenwashing accusations, H&M ethics and social responsibility also leave a lot to be desired.
H&M incorporates some lower-impact materials like organic cotton and recycled polyester in some products, but the majority of the materials it uses are not eco-friendly. For these reasons, we give H&M a score of “Not Good Enough” for the environment—downgraded from “It's a Start” in our November 2023 review.
After being accused of sexualising young children in an advertisem*nt, fashion giant H&M has issued an apology and withdrawn the controversial campaign in Australia.
We have a zero tolerance policy and take a proactive approach in preventing corruption. This is described in our Code of Ethics, which applies to all of our business partners, not only suppliers, and of course all our 179,000 colleagues around the world.
We take a zero-tolerance approach to both forced labor and child labor. All suppliers working for us must sign and comply with our strict anti-forced-labor and anti-child-labor policies.
We take a zero-tolerance approach to both forced labor and child labor. All suppliers working for us must sign and comply with our strict anti-forced-labor and anti-child-labor policies. In 2022, we identified 0 cases of child labor.
Swedish fashion giant H&M saw its sales slump in China, months after it became the target of a Chinese boycott. H&M was among several brands that raised concerns over alleged human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang province.
Wage reduction and wage theft were the most frequently reported allegations, followed by unfair dismissal, inhumane work rates, and forced overtime, according to a report by the non-governmental organisation, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC).
H&M has come under fire this week for an image on their website of a black child dressed in a green hoodie with the words 'coolest monkey in the jungle' printed on it. The image of the little boy has caused outrage on social media with singer The Weeknd taking to Twitter to proclaim an end to his relationship with H&M.
In 2018, a report by Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF) uncovered multiple cases of gender-based violence across H&M's supply chains. The report concluded that current mechanisms put in place by H&M and other brands were not protecting garment workers from harassment.
How are H&M workers treated?
Despite signing a sustainability commitment in 2015 protecting payment of wages, H&M frequently fails to pay its workers both a living wage, which includes support for all family members, basic nutritional needs, and other basic needs including housing, health care, education and basic savings, or even basic minimum ...
H&M said it is following up on 20 alleged instances of labor abuse at Myanmar garment factories that supply the world's second-largest fashion retailer, just weeks after top rival Zara owner Inditex said it is phasing out purchases from the Southeast Asian country.
None of our beauty products are tested on animals and we have strict requirements in place for materials of animal origin, such as wool, leather or down.
H&M is under fire for contracting with factories that allegedly violated child-labor laws. According to the Guardian, a book being published in Sweden next week describes how two factories in Myanmar had workers as young as 14 laboring more than 12 hours a day making clothes. H&M was one of their clients.
What does the H and M stand for? The H&M is the abbreviation for Hennes and Mauritz. In Swedish, Hennes means “hers.” The store was designed keeping women in mind. Later on, they started selling men's fashion clothing as well. Hennes acquired Mauritz — the huntsman apparel store, hence the name H&M.
Scoring even lower than H&M on the Rank a Brand sustainability scale, Zara received a 14/36 - also a C. Taking a look at the report, we see that Zara has implemented policies for the reduction of hazardous chemical use, but none that have to do with carbon emissions or the usage of sustainable raw materials.
We take a zero-tolerance approach to both forced labour and child labour. All suppliers working for us must sign and comply with our strict anti-forced-labour and anti-child-labour policies. In 2022, we identified 0 cases of child labour.
Chemical checklist. When washing, dyeing and printing our clothes, our suppliers must meet our chemical requirements. These are often stricter than the regulations set by the industry, and our bottom line is that hazardous chemicals shouldn't be used by us or found in any of our products.
Forever 21 instead purchases goods from vendors who are required to follow our policies and procedures which expressly prohibit the use of forced, slave, child, or prison labor, or labor from closed or freedom-restricted countries (i.e., the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (“North Korea”), to manufacture the ...
Tmall and many other Chinese platforms and apps scrubbed references to the fashion brand when it was revealed that H&M had pledged not to source cotton from China's far western Xinjiang region, citing concerns about human rights abuses there.
Why did China ban H&M?
HONG KONG -- Swedish fashion retailer H&M has quietly returned to Alibaba's Tmall online sales platform, 16 months after the Chinese e-commerce group banned it over the brand raising concerns about human rights abuses in far-western Xinjiang province.
Retail giant Hennes & Mauritz AB returned to Chinese e-commerce platform Tmall more than a year after it was removed as part of a broader boycott of the Swedish company for its comments about Xinjiang cotton.
Fast fashion giants H&M and Zara have used cotton from farms linked to massive deforestation, land-grabbing, corruption and violence in Brazil, a report by the environmental group Earthsight said Thursday.
H&M's Weaknesses:
Unlike some of its close rivals in the retail fashion industry, H&M outsources all of its clothing. This strategy does have its advantages, but it also limits the control that the brand actually has over the production process.
Last year, a plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit against H&M, arguing that the retailer misled consumers into thinking that its Conscious Choice collection of clothing was “environmentally friendly” and “sustainable.” This May, a federal court in Missouri dismissed the case, noting that the plaintiff had ...
