Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP)

The Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) is an assessment system to measure and improve working conditions in global supply chains, and reduce costs by replacing the need for repetitive social audits.

What is the Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP)

The Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) is a non-profit multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to eliminate audit fatigue in the apparel & footwear industry. We provide the tools and system for a high-quality comparable data set on working conditions that can be used by all industry stakeholders. This increases transparency in supply chains, reduces the need for social audits and ultimately allows users to redeploy resources into improving working conditions.

SLCP is not a standard and does not provide certification. The Converged Assessment Framework is used to collect and verify social and labor data from facilities. The result is a verified data set without any scoring/ranking which is compatible with existing standards. Brands and other stakeholders are able to apply their own scores or Code of Conduct to the SLCP verified data.The Accredited Hosts provide services to help brands use the SLCP verified data, such as scoring, mapping to a Code of Conduct, or identifying issues to build a corrective action plan.

What are the benefits of SLCP?

A facility can share their SLCP verified data with as many stakeholders and clients as they want. SLCP verified data is designed to be compatible with different standards or Codes of Conduct. This allows brands, retailers and standards the flexibility to add their own scoring or interpretation to the data, according to their needs. With SLCP, there is huge potential to compare data over time and across countries, regions and tiers. In general, applying for SCLP verification has the following benefits:

1. Efficiency. Reduction in time and money spent on audits; reduction in audit fatigue.
2. Comprehensive tool. SLCP covers all the data points / questions collected in nearly all other assessments & audit schemes.
3. Multi-Stakeholder. SLCP has been developed collaboratively by brands, manufacturers and other stakeholders.
4. Credibility. High quality, reliable verified social & labor data.
5. Flexibility. Brands can score the data according to their own code of conduct.
6. Facility ownership. Facilities own their data & control how it is shared.

 

How to get SLCP verified?

SLCP verification Process involves the following steps:

1. Register on the e-learning SLCP platform.
2. Create a profile on the Gateway.
3. To start self-/joint-assessment choose the Accredited Host that you would like to use for the assessment and verification.
4. Complete the self-/joint-assessment and choose your Verifier Body. Kaixin Certification (Beijing) Co., Ltd., member of the Cotecna Group, is able to offer SLCP verification as a service to our clients.
5. Kaixin Certification assigns your organization an approved verifier to perform on-site verification.
6. The verified assessment can be viewed, downloaded and shared with end users or other Accredited Hosts (AH) on the Gateway by the organization.

 

Request a Certification

Kaixin Certification, member of the Cotecna Group, can provide SLCP verification services to our clients.

To request an audit, or for more information on the certification process, please don’t hesitate to contact us.