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Fair Labor Association (FLA)
Target groups and goal development
Improve your international social commitment standard by joining the Fair Labor Association (FLA). As a clothing or sports shoe manufacturer, show that you are committed to the fair treatment of employees, including your suppliers in the Far East. The industry’s leading firms are already undergoing the FLA’s tests. You too can benefit from this advantage in the competition to gain enlightened clients.
The principles of the FLA
The FLA, headquartered in Washington, was founded in 1998 and is an independent monitoring organisation. By joining, your company and your suppliers undertake to accept and implement the Code of Conduct. You must also pledge to carry out monitoring procedures to identify any potential infractions of the FLA’s guidelines and to prevent these from happening. Every year, the FLA publishes reports on whether and to what extent its members adhered to the Code of Conduct.
The FLA’s code of conduct at a glance
As well as textile industry companies, NGOs and universities are also members of the FLA. They have all made a commitment to the following principles:
- Adherence to employment laws
- Improved working conditions in textile product manufacturing by
- adapting to international social commitment standards
- prohibiting exploitative child labour (minimum age 15 years)
- prohibiting forced labour
- prohibiting abuse and harassment
- prohibiting discrimination
- Freedom to form unions and the right to collective bargaining
- Payment of the statutory minimum wage and remuneration of overtime
