Lessons from ETI programmes - equal treatment of workers, South Africa

In 2006-7, some of ETI’s company members sourcing from South Africa expressed concerns that ethical audits they had commissioned revealed that discrimination and sexual harassment were occurring in their supply chains. In the ETI impact report of 2006, sexual harassment and discrimination emerged among key issues for agricultural workers and thus became the main themes of ETI's new Equal Treatment of Workers programme (formerly known as the Supervisor Training Programme).

The programme consists of two days training for supervisors, a half day training for managers and one day training for workers on workers’ rights, what constitutes discrimination and how to tackle it. Here, we summarise what we learnt in developing this programme.

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Tamil Nadu Multi-stakeholder programme, southern India

Homeworkers, northern India