Standards
We evaluate business practices against the highest international labor standards to ensure they advance the rights of workers throughout global supply chains.
FLA offers two robust company membership programs for the agriculture and manufacturing sectors.
Becoming a member puts companies on the path to Fair Labor Accreditation, a rigorous, multi-year process that ensures companies are evaluated at the highest standards to improve their own policies and processes to better working conditions in factories and farms worldwide.
Core to the accreditation process are our Fair Labor Standards, consisting of the Fair Labor Code and Compliance Benchmarks and Fair Labor Principles. The Code and Principles are applied at different parts of the supply chain and work in tandem to protect laborers and improve working conditions.
While the nine Code elements are shared by both the manufacturing and agriculture programs, the Compliance Benchmarks and Principles are specific to the sectors, recognizing the specific circumstances of both types of work.
The standards for both sectors align with labor rights standards set by the International Labour Organization and when fully implemented, help companies meet other standards such as UN Guiding Principles, the OECD Guidelines, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and current global supply chain due diligence laws like the U.K.’s Modern Slavery Act and German Supply Chain Act.
Our Fair Labor Standards and unique model of collaboration with companies, civil society organizations, and universities means that Fair Labor members are making tangible changes in business policy and practices that benefit workers around the world.
