What are the criteria for a sweatfree company?
According to the 2001 changes in the General Municipal Law, a company is sweatfree if the employees who produce the clothing are fairly compensated, if the working conditions are safe and healthy, if the employees have the right to form unions, and if no child labor is used. Moreover, when a school district institutes its own purchasing policy it can add other stipulations to its policy. Some school districts have asked that the apparel vendors pay its workers a living wage rather than a minimum wage (which is usually a poverty wage). It is up to each school district to decide how many and which particular requirements it wishes to place on apparel suppliers.
