Social & Labor Convergence Program

Happy New Year from SLCP ✨ 💫 A big thank you to all our signatories, partners and collaborators for supporting SLCP's mission. We're excited to continue making an impact together in 2025.

📊 SLCP prioritizes data quality and integrity by implementing comprehensive oversight measures and strengthening verifier standards. To drive meaningful improvements in working conditions, we need to ensure reliable, consistent data. What steps has SLCP taken to enhance data quality and integrity in 2024? Read our Year in Review to find out more 👇 https://lnkd.in/g4WyuDxr #SLCP #CAF #DataQuality

The EU has taken a significant step to eliminate forced labor from global supply chains through adoption of a ban on all products made using forced labor. Together with Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP), we’ve highlighted what this means for our industry. 👉 Swipe through the carousel to explore the details and understand how we can work together to foster ethical practices worldwide. Contact the SLCP or Cascale policy teams for more information!

🔎 Welcome to Data Friday 🔍 This month, we’re highlighting SLCP’s key findings for 2024. 📊Our data reveals that on average, facilities involving stakeholders had fewer legal flags than those that did not include stakeholders in their goal-setting process. This gap becomes even more significant when examining wages and benefits. ✅ These findings suggest that facilities that engage stakeholders (such as brands or manufacturers) in setting social and labor objectives are more likely to establish and maintain better working conditions for their workers.   💡Learn more about the importance of stakeholder engagement in the factsheet here --> https://lnkd.in/g7uSi2rq #SLCPDataFriday #DataInsights #SocialCompliance #AuditFatigue #Sustainability #SupplyChains

💡Gain insights from our latest case study! ✅ Artistic Milliners, a global denim manufacturer based in Pakistan, reports that 50% of their customers now accept SLCP or have replaced traditional audits with SLCP. 👉 Learn how they’ve optimized resources since adopting SLCP in the full case study here --> https://lnkd.in/dhVT_Jc8 #SLCP #CaseStudy #SocialCompliance #AuditFatigue #SupplyChains #Sustainability

SLCP is currently seeking talented and motivated individuals who want to join us on our mission to drive decent working conditions in global supply chains. ✨   The program is growing quickly, and we expect to expand the team in the foreseeable future. To advance this, we’re inviting experts to submit their CV and motivation on why they want to work with SLCP. We're especially looking for individuals in these areas: 🤝 Brand engagement, business development and account management 🔎 Data Quality & Integrity 🛠️ Technology ☑️ Data Collection Tool For more detail on key areas of responsibility and desired qualifications, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/guh2t7d

🔎 Welcome to Data Friday 🔍 🎯 This month we're looking into SLCP's key findings in 2024. Our data reveals that, for yet another consecutive year, overtime working hours remain the most frequent legal non-compliance, with 60% of SLCP assessments reporting overtime hours exceeding legal limits. 📈 ⚠️ Excessive working hours is one of the 11 indicators of forced labor according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). Forced labor is identifiable when there is pressure to work involuntarily, threat of penalty or when additional hours are required in order to be paid minimum wage. 💡Check out our overtime working hours factsheet to discover actionable steps stakeholders can take to address this issue ---> https://lnkd.in/dU_sHBvt #SLCPDataFridays #DataInsights #SocialCompliance #AuditFatigue #Sustainability #SupplyChains

✍ The third article in CEO Janet Mensink's series for Sourcing Journal discusses the urgent need for streamlining data to improve efficiency, transparency, and consistency in assessing labor conditions across global supply chains. In the article, Janet calls on all stakeholders to join forces with SLCP - collectively we can act now to make audit fatigue a problem of the past and to create actual improvements to labor conditions. Read the whole article below 👇 Find all three articles in the series on our website: https://lnkd.in/gPxKFsGx

🌏 On this United Nations International Human Rights Day, we would like to reiterate our commitment to decent working conditions in global supply chains. SLCP assessments provide credible and actionable data that can support companies to both identify human rights risks and to track and monitor progress. 🔎 Our data shows that 94% of facilities have at least one legal non-compliance*. It’s clear that there is still work to be done, and now more than ever, it is crucial to maintain our focus on human rights due diligence (HRDD) across supply chains. ✅ SLCP’s HRDD Toolkit explains how the Converged Assessment Framework is useful for key due diligence steps. Learn more about it here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dpQCm5Se #SLCP #OHCHR #standup4humanrights #HRDD #SupplyChains *Data from the 2023 Impact Report

🇧🇪 Our Senior Policy and Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Tom Mason, joined a panel at Cascale's Brand & Retail Forum in Brussels earlier this week on 'Advancing Sustainable and Fair Supply Chains: The Role of CS3D and the Higg Index'. Tom spoke alongside Lisa Süß from Fair Wear Foundation, Dan Dionisie from the European Commission, Greta Koch from the European Parliament, and Jeremy Lardeau from Cascale. ✅ They discussed the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the challenges in the textile and consumer goods industries in aligning with new EU legislation, and potential ways forward in finding solutions. Tom called for the need for further convergence and collaboration in order to increase compliance efficiencies and make the business case for enhancing responsible business conduct. The Forum provided an excellent platform to connect with key stakeholders and exchange insights on driving sustainable change 🙌 #SLCP #CascaleForums #BrandRetailForum #CS3D #Convergence