Retailers press for human rights and environmental checks on supply chains

Tesco, John Lewis, Primark, Asos and the Co-op are calling on the government to introduce a legal requirement for companies to carry out human rights and environmental checks on their global supply chains. Such “failure to prevent” legislation could potentially fend off scandals such as the poor treatment of workers in Leicester factories supplying the fast fashion group Boohoo uncovered last year.

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Report: A legal opinion on Boohoo's supply chain and liability under an mHRDD law