Labor and Transparency Initiative
Companies across a variety of sectors are dissatisfied with the results they receive from social audits of their supply chain in China, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, Mexico and in other major manufacturing areas. No satisfactory solutions have emerged to offset the problems associated with auditing.
The Labor and Transparency Initiative is engaging a broad set of stakeholders, to explore three promising ways to move beyond the limited success of audits to date:
- Better Auditing
- Embedment of CSR by the factory
- Harnessing Transparency to drive continuous CSR monitoring and improvement
Directory
Below is a representative directory of key stakeholders we have identified, and in some cases, engaged. Click an entry to visit their website.
NOTE: The stakeholder organizations and individuals shown above does NOT imply any formal association with one another or with Future 500, with the occasional exception that some may be one of our partners.
Objectives
- Survey and report on stakeholder opinion and plans regarding child labor, migrant labor, social auditing, worker hotlines, and other workplace rights related practices.
- Identify promising examples of supply chain leadership in three categories: better audits, embedment, and transparency.
- Identify best practices in each of these areas.
- Explore and compare practices at different companies, from both a functional and political perspective.
- Enable online access to our findings and to enable stakeholder inventories, mapping, and relationship management.
- Where possible, identify one or more common paths that can be supported by corporate, economic development, labor rights, and transparency advocates as best practices on workplace rights.
Deliverables
- Stakeholder Reports will provide important insights
- Stakeholder Maps and Matrices will help identify solutions that meet multiple agendas
- Stakeholder and Peer Meetings will bring key problem-solvers together, to explore positive, collaborative opportunities.
- A Final Report will present approaches with real potential to improve the cost-effectiveness of supply chain management and leadership.
Benefits
- BETTER AUDITING at a lower cost
- BETTER APPROACHES to improve factory labor conditions
- ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE of emerging factory labor controversies
- LESS RISK and less conflict with stakeholders,
- SOLUTIONS that integrate the needs of workers, suppliers, brands, and customers
Who should join?
Senior executives with strategic responsibilities in factory auditing, labor and human resources policy, supplier codes of conduct, and stakeholder engagement.
BE INFORMED - PREPARED - CONNECTED - AND INFLUENTIAL on factory labor solutions
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