I wrote to Adams over a month ago and have had no response from them at all.
These are the questions I posed:
In which countries is your clothing made?
What percentage of the retail price of a garment goes to the worker who made it?
How do you determine how much to pay workers?
Do your workers have a contract with you and know that they can rely on a steady level of income?
Are sub-contractors used? If so, do you monitor the conditions in their factories?
Do you pay your workers in cash or through a bank; do they have the opportunity to save money in a bank account that earns interest?
About cotton: Are you able to determine the conditions and pay that workers in the cotton factories are given? How about the cotton pickers?
How often do you visit your factories and assess the conditions in them?
Adams are not part of the Ethical Trading Initiative. nor do they have an Ethical policy, or code of conduct, on their website safeguarding their employees, therefore they are on my blacklist! I won’t be buying from them any more.
