FLA Workplace Code of Conduct - FLA 3.0

The FLA is a non-profit organizsation based in the US and in Switzerland dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide and building innovative and sustainable solutions to abusive labour conditions.

The FLA Workplace code of conduct is designed to complete national & international labour legislation to promote workers rights. Particular attention is given to the child labour issue. Any company that determines to adopt the Workplace Code of Conduct shall, in addition to complying with all applicable laws of the country of manufacturing, comply with and support the Code of Conduct in accordance with the attached Principles of Monitoring and shall apply the higher standard in cases of differences or conflicts.

The 12 principles are:

  1. Forced Labor
  2. Child Labor
  3. Harassment or Abuse
  4. Non discrimination
  5. Health and Safety
  6. Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
  7. Wages and Benefits
  8. Hours of Work
  9. Overtime Compensation

Adopting the Workplace Code of Conduct also requires from signatories to request its licensees and contractors and, in the case of a retailer, its suppliers to comply in the same way.

The FLA conducts independent monitoring and verification to ensure that the FLA’s Workplace Standards are upheld where FLA company products are produced. Through public reporting, the FLA provides consumers and shareholders with information to make responsible buying decisions.

FLA is also active in ensuring remediation by correcting code violations, using a third party complaint system and develop special projects that target persistent regional or sector-specific code violations.

Information

  • Author: Fair Labour Association (FLA)
  • Application: Sectorial
  • Creation Date: 1997
  • Availability: Free
  • Pillars: Social

Source

http://www.fairlabor.org/

Remarks

Specificities

The association is open to and rests also on NGOs and universities. Many North-American universities are members. An annual report details the work done by affiliated companies that examine their compliance programmes in the more than 5,000 factories from which they sourced production (39 in 2008).

Nature of the instrument - code of conduct

Purpose - implementation and verification