Catalyzing Positive Change for Workers
Transparency is essential to upholding fair labor standards and protecting workers throughout product supply chains. If we don’t know what is happening behind the scenes in factories and on farms around the world, we cannot address the issues and make positive changes. As affiliates of FLA, companies agree to subject their supply chains to independent assessments and monitoring - the results of which are published here. This type of transparency helps consumers make more informed decisions about the products they buy and helps ensure brand accountability. There is no perfect brand or factory - labor issues are often identified even at the best facilities. FLA's assessments lead to an open and honest dialogue about the conditions that workers face and facilitate swift action in consultation with workers' groups, civil society organizations and others.
Assessments
Affiliates may request assessments in addition to FLA's standard monitoring. FLA also assesses compliance programs of Participating Companies, accrediting those in substantial compliance with FLA's Code.
Tracking Charts
Since 2002, FLA has conducted more than 1,500 unannounced factory visits throughout the supply chains of company affiliates. The results of these assessments are publicly available.
Safeguards
FLA's transparent and effective process for handling third party complaints and investigations addresses workers' rights violations flagged by union representatives, workers, or local CSOs.
This is a Third Party Complaint (TPC) investigation like none other. Typically the Fair Labor Association initiates these investigations with the intention of assessing and, as needed, remediating ongoing labor rights violations in a supplier factory. At times the process reaches to recent factory retrenchments and closures.
On April 18, 2021, the Fair Labor Association (“FLA”) received a Third Party Complaint (“TPC”) filed by the union federation Federación de Asociaciones o Sindicatos Independientes de El Salvador (“FEASIES” or “the Complainant”) alleging specified labor rights violations at Decotex International LTA de CV (hereinafter, “Decotex” or “the factory”), a facility owned and operated by Tegra LCC, a corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia. The TPC followed on communications between FLA staff and FEASIES representatives after the publication of
On March 16, 2020, the Fair Labor Association (“FLA”) initiated a Third Party Complaint (“TPC”) investigation, after having received a complaint from the Bangalore North office of the National Union, CITU (Centre of Indian Trade Union), concerning allegations related to work arrangements, wages and benefits, termination of workers, excessive hours of work, freedom of association, and harassment of workers at the Jeans Knit Private Limited (“JKPL”) factory (“the factory”) in Bengaluru, Karnataka State.
On November 6, 2018, the FLA accepted a Third Party Complaint filed by the Tekgida Union concerning the Piraziz factory, which is owned and operated by Olam International and located in Giresun, Piraziz. The Third Party Complaint filed with the FLA was based on allegations of workers' rights violations focused on the freedom of association rights of the workers in the factory.
Final report on a Third Party Complaint filed by the Comité Ad Hoc de Trabajadores de Bienno S.A. alleging a range of workers’ rights violations in the factory Bienno Sociedad Anónima Guatemala.
Towards Decent Working Conditions in Cotton Farms in Sanliurfa: A Lessons Learned Report
Acushnet Company works with supplier in Thailand to protect workers' rights to freedom of association following an FLA assessment.
Following an FLA assessment, VF Corporation works with supplier in El Salvador to ensure accurate compensation for overtime work.
adidas and Forty Seven Brand work with supplier in Bangladesh to prevent discrimination against pregnant women following an FLA assessment.
H&M and Nike work with factory to improve management practices and conduct training for supervisors to prevent verbal harrassment of workers.
This is a Third Party Complaint (TPC) investigation like none other. Typically the Fair Labor Association initiates these investigations with the intention of assessing and, as needed, remediating ongoing labor rights violations in a supplier factory. At times the process reaches to recent factory retrenchments and closures.
On April 18, 2021, the Fair Labor Association (“FLA”) received a Third Party Complaint (“TPC”) filed by the union federation Federación de Asociaciones o Sindicatos Independientes de El Salvador (“FEASIES” or “the Complainant”) alleging specified labor rights violations at Decotex International LTA de CV (hereinafter, “Decotex” or “the factory”), a facility owned and operated by Tegra LCC, a corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia. The TPC followed on communications between FLA staff and FEASIES representatives after the publication of
On March 16, 2020, the Fair Labor Association (“FLA”) initiated a Third Party Complaint (“TPC”) investigation, after having received a complaint from the Bangalore North office of the National Union, CITU (Centre of Indian Trade Union), concerning allegations related to work arrangements, wages and benefits, termination of workers, excessive hours of work, freedom of association, and harassment of workers at the Jeans Knit Private Limited (“JKPL”) factory (“the factory”) in Bengaluru, Karnataka State.
On November 6, 2018, the FLA accepted a Third Party Complaint filed by the Tekgida Union concerning the Piraziz factory, which is owned and operated by Olam International and located in Giresun, Piraziz. The Third Party Complaint filed with the FLA was based on allegations of workers' rights violations focused on the freedom of association rights of the workers in the factory.
Final report on a Third Party Complaint filed by the Comité Ad Hoc de Trabajadores de Bienno S.A. alleging a range of workers’ rights violations in the factory Bienno Sociedad Anónima Guatemala.