All employees must receive basic wages that are in line with similar occupations locally.
The price of the finished article should directly reflect the man hours put into it's manufacture. A fair price for goods, and direct contact with the workforce, ensures the goods have not been produced exploiting local producers in developing countries.
There must be an awareness, and a positive move towards ensuring that men and women receive equal payment for equal work.
Employees should have protected conditions of employment, and security in their jobs. There should be provisions for sickness to cover loss of earnings
Working hours should be reasonable to allow for leisure time
We deplore the use of child labour, and will not use any manufactures who employ any child under the age of 14 years.
Despite the widespread practice of child labour in many developing countries, and the argument that children must work to increase family income, we feel that this practice is cruel and unfair, and does not allow children to develop physically, mentally, spiritually, morally, or socially, as they are meant to. We believe that only by balancing up economic discrepancies through fair trade, will practices like child labour no longer be necessary.
---http://www.fairtrade.net/