SLCP audit (Social labor convergence project)

SLCP (Social and Labor Convergence Project) is a program that emphasizes multi-party participation and collaboration. It promotes an effective integrated evaluation framework to replace existing industry-specific evaluation tools, thereby avoiding duplication and reducing the number of social labor audits, and improving working conditions for all stakeholders in the global clothing and footwear supply chain provide support.

Service background

a key part of companies' access to brands and retailers (especially for labour-intensive clothing and shoe companies around the world). Supply chain is a complex system that relies on a large amount of labor during production. And many companies in order to obtain cheap labor, will drive down production costs, so that poor working conditions, forced labor and discrimination and other issues are often covered up. And as more and more companies join the ranks of brands and retailers in social labor audits, many other problems arise. For example, some factories even accept more than 10 social labor responsibility audits each year, which not only takes up a large amount of human and material resources, but also directly leads to enterprise audit fatigue. The SLCP was launched to eliminate corporate audit fatigue and to improve workers' working conditions.

Service concept

Audit content

1. Recruitment and hiring
2. Working hour
3. Wages & benefits
4. Employee treatment
5. Employee Involvement
6. H&S
7. Termination
8. Management systems
9. Above and beyond

Before the factory conducts on-site verification, the verification scope must be clearly defined, and one of the following needs to be completed as required:
➢ Step 1-Basic Questions (Parts 1 to 7)
➢ Steps 1 and 2-Basic Questions + Management System (Parts 1 to 8)
➢ Steps 1, 2, 3-Basic issues + management system + above and beyond compliance (parts 1 to 9)

Audit methods

1. Management interview
2. On-site audit
3. Document review
4. employees interview

Audit Features

1. Collection of regulatory and performance data from production plants; robust processes will be used; implementation will be facilitated (data hosting, sharing).

2. No minimum requirements will be set; no scoring / ranking mechanism, certification scheme or code of conduct will be established; rather, it will be compatible with existing systems.

Audit benefits

SLCP can reduce the time and money you invest in social responsibility audits:

➢ The annual verification report contains enough information to meet the requirements of many customers;
➢ SLCP can replace all other audit standards over time；
➢ The factory only needs to be validated once a year, thus reducing unnecessary audits。

Long-term benefits
➢ The wide application of single data in the industry will be conducive to resource integration and increase multi-party cooperation to optimize the improvement plan；
➢ The goal of the SLCP is to use savings in audit resources to improve the work environment。

Scope of application

Global Apparel and Footwear Industry

Service process

1.Factory/ Vendor Company Application SLCP Verification

2.Determine the verification steps, the managed platform used, the type of verification

(1) Confirm the steps that the plant needs to verify first (Step 1, Step1 plus Step2, Step1 plus Step2 and Step3)

(2) Whether the hosting platform used is FFC, Sedex or SAC (with Higg)

(3) Is the verification type "notification" or "semi-notification"?

3.MADEOWN quotes and scheduling

Make a quotation based on the number of people in the factory, the steps for choosing verification, and the geographical location of the factory; the factory can propose the desired date by itself, and we will try to arrange it within the time period the factory expects.

4. Customer verification confirmation

Information required for verification (such as factory verification letter, payment slip, business license, etc.).

5.The system submitted a self-assessment and chose MADEOWN as VB
The factory / Vendor Company completed the submission of the self-evaluation on the hosting platform in accordance with the SLCP self-evaluation guidelines, and selected MADEOWN as the verification agency.

6. appoints Verifier
The verification Body will appoint a qualified verifier for verification based on the schedule. If the verification is notified, the verifier will notify the factory before the verification to remind the factory to do the corresponding pre-verification work.

7. On-site audit by the verifier
According to the SLCP verification agreement and verifier guide, the integrity and accuracy of the self-evaluation data to be verified on the factory hosting platform is judged.

8. Issue report
A report will be issued within ten working days after the verification is completed. The verifier submits the report online, and the status is changed from VRP to VRC. We will notify the factory by email to follow up the operation.

9. Approve report, post and share
After receiving the system submission email or MADEOWN reminder email, the factory hosting platform needs to review and approve (publish) the report. After the status is more VRF, you can use online or offline (gateway, hosting platform, mail, etc.) Method) Share the verification report to the required clients.