Your new consumer rights explained - BBC News. Image copyright Getty Images The new Consumer Rights Act provides shoppers with much greater protection than they had previously.
The Act stretches to over a hundred pages and includes many additional areas, such as unfair terms and conditions - in other words, surprises in the small print. But claiming for a refund under the new Act is an untested area, particularly through the new Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) providers, and it may not prove quite as easy as the government hoped. However the Act does establish several new principles. When am I entitled to a refund? If the goods are faulty, and you bought them from a UK-based retailer, you are entitled to ask for them to be repaired - or to get a full refund. What if I bought the product more than a month ago? Even if you bought the product more than 30 days ago, you are still entitled to a repair or a replacement.
This right extends to 6 months after the purchase. Image copyright Thinkstock No. New hope for garment worker wages. IndustriALL Global Union together with representatives of global clothing brands met with factory suppliers, unions, government ministries, and the ILO from 14 to 18 September to discuss ACT, a new initiative aimed at creating living wages in the garment industry.
IndustriALL is working with a group of 14 global brands and retailers to transform the way that companies source garments in support of higher wages for garment workers. The ACT process is to develop industry-wide collective bargaining in garment-producing countries which is backed by reform to brand purchasing practices to ensure that higher wages can be paid. Cambodia, which has a garment and footwear industry worth in excess of US$5 billion a year, has been chosen as the first country in which to start the ACT process. “Industry-wide collective bargaining takes wages out of competition, which means supplier factories can’t push down wages to win business,” said IndustriALL’s policy director, Jenny Holdcroft.
Plus size fashion week: confessions of a plus sized model. The first time I was approached by a modelling scout I thought I was being pranked.
I had just left school at 15, after being bullied badly for my appearance. I was so tall – I’m now 5ft 11in, and I did most of my growing early – I was overweight, my hair was big and fluffy. My confidence was so low that I took the scout’s card but never even called him. For so many years I had been told I was ugly, and I believed it. Whenever someone took a camera out I would make sure I was nowhere near it – any pictures taken of me I burned or ripped up. A couple of years later I was approached again – and once more I didn’t have the self-assurance to pursue it. Until then, I thought models were slender, tall, generally blonde. Eventually, partially through therapy, I learned to love the way I look; to listen less to what other people thought.
I work exclusively for plus size brands. As a UK size 18-20 – and, when modelling, a size 22 – I’m at the larger end of the plus-size spectrum. The Business of Men's Fashion My reflection on the latest Men's Fashion Week, London...
With the sun shining brightly and models and celebrities dashing to and from the catwalk shows, I spent most of my time during the British Fashion Council's latest London Collections Men SS16 event wondering two things: How much of what was on the catwalk would my husband wear? Will London Collections Men ever be as successful as the women's collections at London Fashion Week?
My husband is not very adventurous when it comes to fashion, so I quickly dismissed my vision of him attending a business meeting in a lace-piqued Burberry trench ensemble and instead decided to focus my time and energy on getting an answer to my second question, so: ...Will London Collections Men ever be as successful as the women's collections at London Fashion Week?
...How big a deal is the men's fashion business? ...How much can it grow? Positive change in male consumer behaviour So, what has changed? We've Made Great Strides on Women's Equality - But This Is No Time to Pat Each Other on the Back We have just reached a momentous milestone on our journey to secure what should be a basic right - equality for women in the workplace.
As we speak, one in every four people sitting on a FTSE 100 board is a woman - double the number five years ago. Not only this, but the gender pay gap is lower than it has ever been and the number of businesses led by women is higher than we've ever seen. We've made great strides - and we should be proud but this is no time to pat each other on the back and say job well done. Because we still have a long way to go. We are both well aware that while it is right we celebrate these achievements, it is time to step up the pace. The past few weeks have seen some spirited exchanges on how we close the gap and it is right that this issue is being debated - whether that's in the House of Commons or in workplaces up and down the country. Achieving gender equality isn't just the right thing to do - it makes good business sense.
Our efforts must start early. First British amputee models at London Fashion Week - BBC News.