COVID-19 outbreak: Repurposing our factories to produce PPE for frontline healthcare professionals
To cater to the rising demand of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, we have produced over 500,000 PPE suits for frontline healthcare professionals, while ensuring social distancing and other preventive measures during the production. We are grateful to our employees who have contributed to the production of these suits.
Collaboration insights-I: Business and Academia
Collaborations and partnerships between stakeholders are critical to solve the world’s most pressing challenges across people, planet and profit. This blog series ‘Collaboration insights’ reflects on our partnerships with various stakeholders, starting with business and academia.
By Gauri Sharma and Divya Jyoti
Awarded “Best Performer Employer” by Ministry of Rural Development, GoI for three consecutive years
It was an honor to receive the “Best Performer Employer – Rank -1” National Award 2019 under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU GKY) by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India (GoI).
By women, for women: How we co-created a menstrual hygiene management program with our female workforce
In a country where FLFP is abysmally low, focusing on women's holistic health and well-being is essential. Learn how Shahi embraced the challenge and built a program with its workers.
Closing the skill gap: How Shahi’s skilling efforts enable more women to enter the workforce
India’s Female Labor Force Participation has fallen from 36.7% in 2005 to 26% in 2018. The apparel industry, as a majority female employer, holds the power to break some of the barriers women face to enter the formal workforce. Read our blog post to understand how Shahi’s skilling efforts are enabling more women to join the formal workforce.
By Gauri Sharma and Sakshi Katyal
Committing to women’s reproductive health at Women Deliver 2019
Women Deliver is the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women. It’s in some ways an unlikely event for an apparel business to attend, let alone be invited to speak. However, in a country where the number of women in the workforce is dropping rapidly (from 34% to 24% in the last decade), our industry is a crucial source of economic empowerment for low-skilled women as well as an advocate for advancing women’s participation in work outside the home.
Launching Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) in India
As India’s largest apparel manufacturer with over 60 factories, we are proud to be a signatory to and welcome to India – Social Labor & Convergence Program (SLCP) – a first-of-its-kind, disruptive and widely accepted framework to measure social and labour standards.
A year on from Unit 8: What we’ve learned
Just over a year ago, a serious incident took place at one of our 65 factories, Unit 8, where unionized workers were attacked by non-unionized workers resulting in a violent exchange. It was widely covered in the media at the time and created truly regrettable reputational damage for our buyers. The incident and the behaviors that led to it are absolutely condemned by Shahi and go against our robust policies on freedom of association and anti-harassment. We take our responsibilities to our employees very seriously and have been leaders within the apparel sector in building a positive and supportive work culture. However, this incident is evidence that, despite many positive policies and initiatives, we have more work to do to protect the rights of all 100,000 of our workforce.
