Verité
ETI Resources: Country Information
On this page:
- Overview
- About Verité
- How information is collected
- Key strengths
- Less strong on…
- Countries covered
- Country samples
- How much does it cost?
- For purchase and/or further information / How to access
Overview
Verité produce two types of country briefings:
Country Assessments
Country Assessments provide an overview of relevant labour law, government enforcement and implementation status, covering most elements of the ETI Base Code.
Labour Law Digests
Labour Law Digests provide more detailed information on relevant labour law. Information is obtained from their own auditing experience and from local research conducted in collaboration with local partners.
About Verité
Verité is an independent, not-for-profit social auditing, research and training organisation based in the US, whose mission is to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions. Since 1995, it has conducted over 1,250 comprehensive factory evaluations in 65 countries; numerous factory-based management training and worker-education programmes in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East; and research for socially concerned investors worldwide.
See www.verite.org for more information.
How information is collected
Information for the Country Assessments and Labour Law Digests are collected by Verité staff from three main sources:
- Verité’s own auditing experience in the country in question
- In-country research conducted by Verité’s local partner organisations. This would typically include interviews with key decision makers in the government, business, trade union and non-governmental sectors.
- Publicly available information sources.
Key strengths
- The reports build on in-country research conducted by local partner organisations.
- Both report series provide highly relevant information in an
easily digestible format, covering most aspects of the ETI Base Code:
- Labour Law Digests provide a summary of key aspects of country labour law relevant to corporate codes of conduct, including references to the full legal documents. Each has sections on: child labour, special provisions for women workers, freedom of association and collective bargaining, employment practices and personnel policies, wages and benefits, hours of work, contract labour, and health and safety.
- Country Assessments also cover most aspects of the ETI Base Code,
and are divided into three sections:
- labour laws and the legal system;
- institutional capacity to monitor and enforce labour laws; and
- implementation effectiveness.
Less strong on…
- No legal checks on information. The documents they prepare are not verified by labour lawyers.
Countries covered
Note: you may either read descriptions of briefing types (above), or download samples (below).
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