Fair Labor Association - Fashion Company Profile
The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is the Washington, D.C. nonprofit founded in 1999 that brings companies, universities and civil-society organizations together to end sweatshop conditions and build sustainable solutions to abusive labor conditions in factories worldwide - through its Workplace Code of Conduct, independent monitoring and accreditation of company compliance programs.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a nonprofit multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to promoting adherence to international labor standards and improving working conditions worldwide
- Type
- Nonprofit organization - companies, universities and civil-society organizations
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Founded
- 1999
Company Profile
A labor-standards nonprofit carries no shop box. The record below - the code, the monitoring model and the leverage argument its founding generation made - is kept in full on the history page. Its companion in this letter is Free2Work, the consumer-facing grading project filed further down the F pages.
Since 1999, the FLA has helped improve the lives of thousands of workers by helping to create greater accountability and transparency of factories, manufacturers, and others involved in the manufacturing and supply process. The work runs in two directions at once: strengthening the capacity of local communities to advocate that governments meet their responsibilities to workers, and helping workers themselves have a greater voice in determining and negotiating their needs. That pairing - pressure from institutions above and voice from workers below - is the association's theory of change, and it distinguishes this profile from a simple inspection service.
Fair Labor Association History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Fair Labor Association History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What is the Fair Labor Association?
A non-profit organization dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide and building innovative and sustainable solutions to abusive labor conditions, in the historical record.
How does the FLA enforce its standards?
Companies and brands that affiliate must comply with and enforce the FLA's Workplace Code of Conduct in the factories within the agreement; the FLA monitors compliance, reports the record publicly, and works to ensure problems are corrected, in the historical record.
Who belongs to the FLA coalition?
Universities and colleges, companies and other parties from the manufacturing and marketing process, and many non-governmental organizations dedicated to protecting workers' rights, in the historical record.
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