The development of detailed auditor guidelines and a best-in-class wage collection tool
Situation
GoodWeave International is a non-profit organisation working to stop child labour in global supply chains. To advance their positive social impacts, GoodWeave partnered with Anthesis to develop a wage collection tool.
Impact
The project resulted in the development of detailed auditor guidelines and a best-in-class wage collection tool to strengthen data collection, evaluation, and benchmarking against living and minimum wage standards in different parts of India and Nepal.
Solution
Best in class wage collection tool.
Robust tools and guidelines that can be refined over time and potentially expanded to other regions and wage benchmarks.
Situation
GoodWeave International is a non-profit organisation working to stop child labour in global supply chains. They partner with companies and local producer communities to bring visibility to hidden supply chains, protect workers’ rights, provide assurance that products are free of child, forced, and bonded labor, and help restore childhoods.
To advance their positive social impacts, GoodWeave partnered with Anthesis to develop a wage collection tool. This tool converts piece-rate payments into legal minimum wage and benchmarks them against living wage in the carpet industries of India and Nepal.
The project was divided into two phases, with the second still underway.
“The team at Anthesis were easy to work with and came with deep human rights expertise. The tool they built for us has expanded our wage calculation abilities in India and Nepal and will have a positive impact on our mission to end child labour and deepen our knowledge of workers’ wages in the carpet industry.”
Emily Crain, Senior Manager of Human Rights and Assurance GoodWeave International
Solution
The project to date involved a thorough desktop analysis to identify existing best-practice piece-rate calculation methods, minimum wage laws by region, and living wage benchmarks in India and Nepal.
Anthesis used this research context to design, program, and develop a user-friendly wage calculation tool which enables the comparison of piece-rate wage payments against minimum and living wage benchmarks at a national and state-based level. Anthesis went through several rounds of design, development, and testing with GoodWeave to create the functional, user-tested tool. It needed to be useable in the field but also robust enough to handle complex economies and networks around formal and informal rug making in South Asia.
Anthesis developed guidelines for in-country auditors, detailing efficient and effective methods for assessing wages during on-site audits. These guidelines included details of how to use the wage tool, specific questions for auditors to ask interviewees, methods for verifying wage collection, and suggested steps for compliance and corrective action.
Impact
The project resulted in the development of detailed auditor guidelines and a best-in-class wage collection tool to strengthen data collection, evaluation, and benchmarking against living and minimum wage standards in different parts of India and Nepal.
The output has provided GoodWeave with robust tools and guidelines that can be refined over time and potentially expanded to other regions and wage benchmarks.
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