Workplace Report January 2004

European news

H&M signs agreement

Hennes & Mauritz the Swedish retail clothing group, better known as H&M, has also just signed an agreement to secure and promote fundamental employee rights worldwide.

The agreement signed with Union Network International, the international federation representing service workers, sets out H&M's corporate policy on human rights, freedom of association and collective bargaining. It will apply in all the group's 950 stores worldwide.