What does it mean?
Implementing Solutions means addressing the causes of living wage gaps and closing them. This includes setting commitments and targets, prioritising suppliers or sites, improving procurement practices, strengthening human resource and wage systems, optimising operations, and supporting workers’ voice and social dialogue. Because living wages rely on shared responsibility, collaboration with suppliers, workers, unions, government institutions, and peers is essential.
Implementation resources
Practical guidance, frameworks, and case studies to help you move from insight to action, wherever you are in your implementation journey.
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This isn’t something we can do alone if we want to drive it throughout our supply chain. We absolutely need more companies to join us… If we want to make real progress… we need to bring others on board, including the governments.
– Unilever
What we have seen in sectors like sugarcane and palm oil is that some of the root causes of not paying a living wage include outsourcing, anti union measures, informality, piece rates, extreme working hours, poor occupational health and safety, and a lack of decent living conditions.
– CNV
Case studies
Learn by example from a wide variety of sectors about interventions to pay voluntary contributions, strength wage setting institutions, support collective bargaining, and institute responsible purchasing practices.
