About Us

Incorporated in 1999, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a collaborative effort of socially responsible companies, colleges and universities, and civil society organizations to improve working conditions in factories around the world. The FLA has developed a Workplace Code of Conduct, based on ILO standards, and created a practical monitoring, remediation and verification process to achieve those standards.

The FLA is a brand accountability system that places the onus on companies to voluntarily achieve the FLA’s labor standards in the factories manufacturing their products. Universities affiliated with the FLA ensure that the licensees supplying their licensed products manufacture or source those products from factories in which workers’ rights are protected.

A Catalyst for Positive Change in Workplace Conditions

The FLA adds value to the individual efforts of companies or universities by offering:

• A collaborative process that allows industry, civil society organizations, and colleges and universities to sit around the same table and discuss matters of common interest;

• A system to perform due diligence on companies’ internal compliance programs through unannounced independent external monitoring and verification;

• Innovative and sustainable strategies for improving compliance with labor standards;

• Public access to all independent external monitoring reports via the FLA Web site; and

• A mechanism to address the most serious labor rights violations through our Third Party Complaint process.