{"id":26914,"date":"2024-06-13T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/?page_id=26914"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:28:29","slug":"process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/accountability\/fair-labor-accreditation\/process\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Labor Accreditation Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fair Labor Accreditation Process<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n
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Fair Labor Accreditation signifies that an agriculture or manufacturing company has effective systems in place that protect workers in its global supply chain. Our goal is to prevent abuses, ensure sustainable compliance, and remediate violations of FLA\u2019s internationally respected standards<\/a>. The Fair Labor Accreditation process simultaneously supports compliance with new and emerging mandatory human rights due diligence regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process of Fair Labor Accreditation<\/a> sets a manufacturing company on a concrete path to improving labor conditions in its Tier One and owned manufacturers. For agriculture companies, the accreditation program is designed to verify and strengthen working conditions in the agricultural tiers of a company\u2019s global supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To earn Fair Labor Accreditation, companies must meet a rigorous series of milestones<\/a> that mark progress in implementing, monitoring, and remediating workplace standards based on FLA\u2019s Fair Labor Practices. Each milestone represents a key building block in the continuous journey toward developing an effective human rights due diligence program that improves working conditions and worker well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, companies must report on the foundational elements of their human rights due diligence program, including systems, procedures, strategies, and tools to address and improve working conditions within identified tiers of their supply chains. FLA verifies submitted documents, providing feedback and recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLA staff and assessors then observe and evaluate a company\u2019s actions in its supply chain, traveling to countries where it sources inputs and visiting factories and farms that produce many of the goods that consumers see and use every day. FLA then verifies observed practices against the FLA Fair Labor Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the process, FLA engages with stakeholders at headquarters and within supply chains to assess how the company is improving its protocols and processes based on FLA\u2019s Fair Labor Practices. Evaluation includes how companies can better monitor and address issues like nondiscrimination, harassment or abuse, forced labor, child labor, freedom of association and collective bargaining, health, safety and environment, hours of work, and fair compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As companies progress in their respective accreditation journeys, FLA reports findings publicly and provides ongoing analysis and feedback to companies. The result is a continuous improvement process for socially responsible corporations committed to protecting workers and improving working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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[Fair Labor Accreditation] has helped provide a lot of valuable insight. Not only how we are engaging in key functions in the company to take the right business decisions towards human rights in the supply chain, but it also provides a constant review of standards, the scope of our work, our policies, and really gives us a way forward on how we can improve.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

\n Veronique Rochet, PUMA (a Fair Labor Accredited company)\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n
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View assessment reports<\/h2>\n
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\n View Accreditation reports<\/a>\n \"\"