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Everyone deserves a wage you can live on. That is the starting point of Living Wage. But what is the state of affairs in 2025? What has been achieved - and what lies ahead?
Everyone deserves a wage you can live on. That is the starting point of Living Wage. But what is the state of affairs in 2025? What has been achieved - and what lies ahead?
Attention to living wages has increased significantly in recent years. Organisations such as the Global Living Wage Coalition, Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and IDH developed methods to make the gap between wages and living wages transparent. Major companies such as Unilever and L'Oréal have now committed to working towards Living Wage in their chains.
Since 2024, the CSRD directive requires large companies in Europe to report on social sustainability, including wages in their supply chains. While Living Wage is not (yet) an explicit obligation, under ESRS S2, companies do have to demonstrate whether wages are "adequate".
In doing so, they should use the highest of these three standards:
Living Wage is thus increasingly becoming the benchmark. Companies are expected to analyse any differences, make them transparent and - where possible - draw up action plans to close the gap.
With the expected introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in 2027, due diligence on living wage is indeed expected to become a formal obligation. Current CSRD reports can already anticipate this.
Transparency about wages in the chain is no longer becoming a casual choice.
Analysing wage data, working with certified suppliers (such as Fairtrade or Living Wage partners), and reporting on concrete steps towards living wages are becoming increasingly important.
This is essential to meet today's CSRD requirements, as well as to be prepared for tomorrow's obligations.
The overseas grape season starts in mid-December, but planning begins now. Demand for organic grapes remains strong and our growers need early visibility on the volumes they can reserve for fixed programmes. By aligning programmes in advance, we can secure organic volumes more effectively and are also in a stronger position to offer competitive pricing.
Along the Orange River in South Africa’s Northern Cape lies Carpe Diem, a long-standing and trusted partner for our organic grapes. Owner Gog van der Colff took over the family business in 2000 and made the deliberate decision to switch to organic farming in 2006. What began as a step that not everyone was initially convinced by has developed into a progressive organic farm producing grapes, pecans and raisins.
El Niño is clearly affecting the South American mango season this year. Higher temperatures and unusual rainfall patterns are disrupting flowering, making availability and harvest timing less predictable.
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