People and human rights
A House that cares about material origin must also care about the conditions under which material, craft and service are produced.
Dignity at work
The House intends to require work to be freely chosen, lawful and carried out with respect for health, safety and human dignity. Forced labour, trafficking, child labour, violence and degrading treatment are outside the House standard.
Hours, pay and voice
Supplier and employment standards should address lawful working hours, wages and benefits, safe conditions, freedom of association and lawful worker representation where applicable. Local law is a floor; higher contractual standards may be required where risk justifies them.
Migrant and vulnerable workers
Recruitment fees, retention of identity documents, coercive housing arrangements and other dependency risks should receive additional scrutiny when migrant or otherwise vulnerable workers are involved.
Supply-chain due diligence
The House should map strategic suppliers and material origins as production begins, identify higher-risk countries/processes, require disclosure of relevant subcontracting and document corrective action when problems are found.
Grievance and remedy
A mature House must provide workers and partners a route to raise serious concerns without retaliation. If the House causes or contributes to harm, corrective action should address the harm rather than stop at terminating a supplier.
Reporting maturity
This is a pre-opening standard, not a claim that a global supplier audit programme already exists. Formal human-rights reporting, modern-slavery statements and audit statistics should be published only when required or when real operations make them meaningful.