SLCP Validation - Helping Enterprises Eliminate Audit Fatigue

SLCP (Social and Labor Convergence Project), also known as the "Social Labor Integration Project Verification", is a program that emphasizes multi-party participation and collaboration. It replaces existing specialized evaluation tools in various industries by implementing an effective integrated evaluation framework, avoiding duplication and reducing the number of social labor audits, and providing support for stakeholders to improve working conditions in the global clothing and footwear supply chain.

01. Audit background

The social responsibility status in the supply chain has become a key factor for companies to gain the favor of brands and retailers (especially for some labor-intensive clothing and shoe companies globally). The supply chain is a complex system that relies on a large amount of labor during product production. Many companies, in order to obtain cheap labor, will lower production costs, resulting in poor working conditions, forced labor, and discrimination issues often being covered up. Moreover, as more and more enterprises join the social labor audit ranks of brands and retailers, many other issues have also arisen.

For example, some factories even undergo more than 10 social labor responsibility audits annually, which not only consumes a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources of the enterprise, but also directly leads to audit fatigue. The launch of SLCP is aimed at eliminating audit fatigue in enterprises and improving the working conditions of workers.

02. SLCP audit content

1. Recruitment and Hiring

2. Working hours

3. Wages&benefits

4. Employee treatment

5. Employee Involvement

6. Health and Safety (H&S)

7. Termination

8. Management systems

9. Above and beyond compliance

03. Audit scope

(The factory must clearly define the scope of the following steps before conducting on-site verification)

Step 1- Basic Questions (Parts 1 to 7)

Steps 1 and 2- Basic Questions+Management System (Parts 1 to 8)

Steps 1, 2, and 3- Basic Questions+Management System+Beyond and Beyond Compliance (Parts 1 to 9)

04. Advantages of SLCP Audit

1. Reduce the time and money you invest in social responsibility audits:

2. Being able to replace all other audit standards, thereby reducing unnecessary audits;

3. Facilitating resource integration and increasing multi-party cooperation for optimization and improvement plans;

4. The saved audit resources can be used to improve the work environment.