Home-based workers are a vital part of fashion’s workforce but many fashion brands refuse to acknowledge their contribution. Not being recognised as workers means homeworkers are denied their basic rights:
- no sick pay
- no maternity pay
- no pension
- no guarantee of work.
Homeworkers in Tirupur, India have come together and are fighting for recognition - to guarantee their rights.
Today you can support their call by demanding UK fashion brands also recognise the existence of homeworkers.
Write to leading fashion retailers and ask them to produce policies that recognise homeworkers as workers with the same rights and protections as other workers.