Patagonia's Taiwanese suppliers can no longer require migrant workers hired on or after June 1, to pay broker fees to secure a job. Suppliers can either pay the fees themselves or hire workers directly. The outdoor company has also mandated that suppliers repay currently employed workers, who were hired before June 1, all fees that exceeded the legal amount. The decision was taken in December 2014, at a forum Patagonia hosted for its Taiwanese suppliers, where the brand explained the new standards. Since 2011 Patagonia has been working with Verité, an NGO dedicated to ensuring fair and legal working conditions around the world, to develop a comprehensive migrant worker standard for its Asian factories, including pre-hiring interactions as well, along with labor contracts, wages and fees, retention of passports, living and working conditions, grievance procedures and repatriation issues. In 2011, a social responsibility audit had revealed that labor brokers were charging migrant workers excessive fees, sometimes exceeding $5,000, to ensure them a job at a Taiwanese factory supplying fabrics to Patagonia.

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