Ethical Compliance
About Yarra Trail
Established in 1994, Yarra Trail Womenswear offers apparel for Women aged 35 and over. Catering to our brand statement 'Founded in nature.' Yarra Trail offers casual clothing to wear 7 days a week. Renowned for our core product categories of Knitwear, Jackets, Pants and Shirts, and an extended range of casual co-ordinates. Collections are based around monthly drops, each offering a new colour palette.
Our Responsibility
Brand Collective's social and ethical compliance code is founded on values of fairness, integrity accountability, sustainability and respect. These values are encompassed in all that we do and further more govern the brands growth.
Labour and Human Rights
Brand Collective places a high level of importance on delivering high quality products and recognizes the critical role of our suppliers within this process.
Brand Collective adheres to an Ethical Sourcing Code which complies with human rights and social justice standards. In turn all of our operations including those of our suppliers are committed to ensuring labour and human rights are respected and ethical behaviours are enforced.
To ensure all our products are ethically sourced and manufactured our factories must comply with all of the below statements:
Employees must meet the minimum age requirement;
Employee working hours and overtime legislation must be complied with;
Employee wages must meet the minimum requirement;
Employees work within a healthy and safe environment;
Factories enforce an anti-discrimination policy;
Factories adhere to environmental and occupational health and safety standards.
All businesses within Brand Collective's conduct regular factory audits ensuring all suppliers are compliant with our code of conduct. If we find any evidence of unethical or non-compliance to minimum standards we take action by ceasing to place future orders with that company until they prove their standards are at required levels. If they fail to prove this, then we cease supply.
In addition:
Designworks (the business within Brand Collective that sources products from Bangladesh) is also a signatory to the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety
Environment
Brand Collective is a signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a scheme established by the Federal Government in conjunction with the governments of the states and territories for the reduction of packaging waste and the promotion of increased use of recycling materials.
Animal Welfare
Brand Collective and all its businesses have a policy of not using fur, angora or mulesed wool.For Brand Collective's Ethical Sourcing Policy, please click here.