ETI REPORTS 2006
ETI Homeworker
guidelines
recommendations
for working with homeworkers
These guidelines present the recommendations and working tools developed by the ETI Homeworkers Project Group for those working within international supply chains that source from homeworkers. They seek to provide guidance on how retailers, suppliers, trade unions (TUs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can take action to help improve the working conditions of homeworkers. The ultimate aim is to work towards the implementation of internationally agreed labour standards with homeworkers, specifically those of the ETI Base Code.
At the time of writing (July 2006), these guidelines are being tested in
an ETI pilot with homeworkers in India. They may be amended
in light of testing, but represent our best understanding of how conditions
in company supply chains can be improved.
About the
homeworker guidelines
These guidelines are still a ‘work in progress’ and we welcome
feedback from anyone using them. If you have comments please contact ETI.
Download the guidelines
You may choose to download the entire document (or entire toolkit) from the first box below or select particular chapters to download individually. The links below give you the main chapter headings and indicate for whom they are primarily written. Before choosing, you may wish to follow this link to view the detailed table of contents.
(Please note that the following downloads are improved versions of the documents that have been posted here for the last few weeks. The content is the same, but the file sizes are very much smaller and quicker to download, as well as meeting a very much higher standard of accessibility - webmaster, 1 Nov 2006.)
The printed report and toolkit in full:
ETI homeworker guidelines
(complete, including Toolkit) [PDF, 377kb]
The toolkit (only) in full:
ETI homeworker guidelines
Toolkit (chapter 7 complete) [PDF, 203kb]
Click to download individual chapters
Chapter name is followed by an indication of file size & primary target audience.
- About these guidelines [PDF, 21kb, All users]
- Background: homeworkers and the supply chain [PDF, 45kb, All users]
- Principles and approaches of the ETI guidelines [PDF, 30kb, All users]
- What retailers can do [PDF, 36kb, Retailers]
- What suppliers can do [PDF, 16kb, Suppliers]
- What trade unions and non-governmental organisations can do [PDF, 34kb, TUs & NGOs]
- Toolkit
[also available in single PDF above]
- What it is and how to use it [PDF, 10kb, All users]
- Model policy for use by retailers and suppliers on homeworking [PDF, 12kb, All users]
- Sample mapping tools [PDF, 25kb, All users]
- Application framework – applying the ETI Base Code in the homeworker context [PDF, 136kb, All users]
- Questions for homeworkers [PDF, 12kb, All users]
- Researching homeworkers’ conditions – a guide to focus group discussions [PDF, 15kb, All users]
- Guidance on how to set piece rates [PDF, 9kb, All users]
- Consultants/companies qualified to conduct time and motion studies to establish fair piece rates [PDF, 10kb, All users]
- Log book for use by homeworkers [PDF, 7kb, All users]
- The SEWA Insurance Fund [PDF, 11kb, All users]
- How purchasing practices can undermine the principles of the ETI Base Code with homeworkers [PDF, 10kb, All users]
See also:
ETI Activities: Experimental projects: Homeworkers.
ETI Events: Conferences: Biennial conference 2005: Workshop - Homeworkers
ETI Resources: Library: Key documents: ETI Base Code.
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