The Dindigul Agreement

This resource from Re:Structure Lab can help you to understand Worker-Driven Social Responsibility (WSR) agreements - a key tool for combatting forced labor, gender-based violence and harassment, and overlapping human rights and labor abuses in supply chains. The brief highlights the key elements of WSR agreements to ensure they can be supported – and not undermined – by regulatory approaches, and uses the 2022 Dindigul Agreement as one such example. The Dindigul Agreement was pioneered by an independent majority Dalit trade union in India run by women and comprises a set of legally binding agreements with major apparel companies. This resource will be especially beneficial to procurement professionals, sustainability professionals, and others parties responsible for raising labour standards in supply chains.