“Companies have enormous leeway in what they report. It’s enormously difficult to compare within firms across years. Between firms, impossible. Companies are able to pick and choose how they tell their story,” says Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute.

Visiting Fellow Samira Rafaela writes, “While a coalition of likeminded countries is striving to reform global labour governance, it is impossible to ignore the influence of the current geopolitical agenda. Europe seeks to protect its international labour reputation and aims to reduce dependency on systemic rivals like China.”

Executive Director Jason Judd is in Thomson Reuters’ Context, with a Q&A on how to help apparel workers as climate change accelerates. His three recommendations: set workplace temperature standards, annual wage adjustments and pay workers more money. As he puts it, “Arguably the most important adaptation technology is cash.”

Our recent Waiting Game policy brief is highlighted by Apparel Resources, where they discuss our recommendations for a shift to an annual wage-setting process in Bangladesh.

Executive Director Jason Judd has a letter in the Financial Times, where he discusses our recent Hot Air and Higher Ground research, and challenges the UK to step up and hold apparel brands and retailers accountable for harms to workers along their supply chains.

“If you get a leading global retailer on the phone and press them on the level and quality and confidence in the [climate risk] analysis they’ve done, I think it’s not very high. That’s unnerving,” says Executive Director Jason Judd in this piece.

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd is quoted extensively in this piece highlighting our recent "Hot Air" report, where he talks about the "nerdy" nature of our research, as well as high heat, flooding and adaptation efforts.

Jason Judd, executive director at the Global Labor Institute, says “If a brand or retailer knows that temperatures in a production area are excessively high or doing damage to worker health, then they're obligated under this new set of rules to do something about it.”

“[I]n Cambodia, the law says the temperature should not be such that it affects workers’ health. That’s worse than useless because the government can point to a standard and say, ‘Well, of course, we have a legal standard'...But of course, the standard’s meaningless.”

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd is on the ‘Frankly Speaking’ podcast from Frank Bold, where he discusses the just transition, GLI’s labor outcome metrics, and sheep, goats, foxes, and hedgehogs.

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd and top investigative journalist Daniel Murphy headlined the eCornell ‘Freedom at Sea’ webinar on how to detect and combat forced labor in commercial fishing.

GLI executive director Jason Judd is profiled in The New Statesman (UK) ‘Policy Ask’. He talks about the UK’s Modern Slavery Act (‘Not fit for purpose’), the impact of GLI’s 2023 Higher Ground? reports, and renaming Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Bridge.

Our "Higher Ground?" report and Schroders’ Katie Frame are talked about by Responsible Investor in this podcast episode about fast fashion and investors.

Jason Judd quoted on the Voices on Supply Chains episodes on WRI's Big Ideas Into Action podcast feed.

The Global Labor Institute is hiring a research specialist in NYC who is familiar with global labor issues and is a strong researcher and writer. The successful candidate will execute research and support management of research projects for GLI. See the announcement here.