John Lewis

Responded to survey: no

MSI involvement: no [what's this?]

Grade 2: Acknowledges that minimum and industry benchmark wages are not sufficient standards, but no real efforts to apply living wage. [what's this?]

Summary

No response received in 2008; apparently no activity on living wages

Position on living wages

John Lewis told us in 2006 that, “we recognise that our code sets an aspirational standard [on wages] and we are keen to work with our suppliers and other stakeholders to identify practical ways of implementing it in the future.”

Work so far on living wages

In 2006 John Lewis told us of some,“[p]reparatory work with local partners looking at wage levels” in India.

In 2007, it sent us a considerable amount of detail regarding this preparatory work, but in it made only a cursory reference to living wages. It appears therefore that the living wage remains aspirational for John Lewis.

Plans on living wages

No submission received

Other significant information

None

Our comments

John Lewis had a lot to say in previous years, but did not respond in 2008. We said in 2007 that, while it may be developing and improving an ethical trading programme, it hasn’t grasped the nature of our concerns and was throwing resources at an auditing model that is widely acknowledged to be failing.

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