Burberry

Information taken from Burberry's website

Responded to survey: no

MSI involvement: no [what's this?]

Grade 1: Accepts the principle of a living wage, but applies legal minimum/industry benchmark. [what's this?]

Summary

While its Ethical Trading Policy mentions living wages, Burberry does not mention any specific wages activities and therefore it is safe to assume that only the legal minimum is implemented.

Position on living wages

The Ethical Trading Policy on Burberry's website uses the same formulation as the ETI base code.

Work so far on living wages

None mentioned

Plans on living wages

None mentioned

Other significant information

Burberry's website lists a number of activities it has planned to implement its Ethical Trading Policy, indicating, for example, that in 2007/8 it, “[f]urther increased the Group’s internal specialist team of compliance officers, responding to some concerns from stakeholders regarding third-party monitoring.”

Our comments

No response to our request for a submission. Burberry's Ethical Trading Policy mentions living wages, but it does not appear to have considered the implications of this and is presumably auditing against the legal minimum.