Recent Hotspot - SLCP Validation

Currently, SLCP is one of the recent hotspots in the corporate social responsibility industry, and more and more buyers in the footwear and clothing industry are promoting SLCP, requiring their suppliers to complete SLCP verification.

SLCP (Social&Labor Convergence Project) is the abbreviation for the Social Labor Integration Project, which aims to support stakeholders in improving working conditions in the global supply chain by creating and implementing a simple, unified, and effective industry wide Integrated Assessment Framework (CAF) for social and labor data collection. Compared to other compliance audits, this framework will be standard neutral: the focus will be on collecting factory performance data in a unified and reliable manner, thereby achieving cross brand and cross organizational data sharing and comparison.

Advantages of SLCP

1. Many shoe and clothing buyers are signatories to SLCP, and using the same standard can reduce duplicate audits;

2. The report is easy to share;

3. SLCP validation only generates data and facts, and does not set bias classification for any checkpoints, making it convenient for buyers to score or grade internally based on their own understanding and standards. In other words, SLCP facilitates different buyers to develop their own game rules while using the same set of corporate social responsibility standards.

Benefits of Implementing SLCP for Enterprises

1. Prove the compliance of enterprises in terms of social responsibility - complete SLCP project validation, and ensure that all parties carry out production and manufacturing activities that comply with legal, humanitarian, and ethical standards externally.

2. Information sharing - In order to share verified information with different hosting platforms in the future, factories can start by establishing multiple hosting platforms. However, self-assessment and verification only need to be conducted on the same hosting platform. Factories can download or share verified data information to various customers through a hosting platform, greatly facilitating information sharing.

3. Data Confidentiality - Factories can decide which recognized hosting platforms to share their SLCP validated evaluation data with. The gateway will not share its data without factory approval. The gateway stores all evaluation data and is hosted by the International Trade Center (TC), a joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations that meets the highest standards for data security.

4. Risk Minimization - Through SLCP's project validation, it ensures the creation of a safer working environment and more reasonable labor protection, while protecting employees and reducing the possibility of damaging the company's reputation.