SLCP’s Role in HRDD
Understanding where SLCP supports HRDD
Explore where SLCP’s Converged Assessment Framework (CAF) aligns with emerging policy requirements and can serve as a foundational tool for human rights due diligence implementation.
A complex landscape, a common foundation
HRDD requirements vary by jurisdiction, but most converge on two international frameworks: the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
SLCP’s Converged Assessment Framework (CAF) was developed within the context of the same frameworks and is aligned with international labor standards, particularly the ILO Core Labor Standards, and national labor law. The data the CAF provides is directly relevant to the risks companies must identify under emerging HRDD legislations.
Joseph Wozniak | International Trade Centre (ITC)
“By assessing social and labor conditions in accordance with international labor standards and national laws, SLCP establishes itself as a valuable tool to help companies carry out effective due diligence. Our partnership with SLCP opens up exciting opportunities to harness aggregated social and labor data, enabling suppliers to conduct comprehensive human rights due diligence and providing policymakers with insights to drive meaningful decisions and improvements”.
SLCP's value-add for HRDD
Foundational social assessment that covers a wide range of social and labor topics companies are expected to address as part of their HRDD processes.
Alignment with international and national labor laws and standards ensures the data is relevant to identifying HRDD risks and informing decisions.
One assessment, shared by many users; providing stakeholders the most scalable route to multi-jurisdiction compliance.
A foundation, not a one-stop shop
The CAF doesn't cover every risk across the value chain or replace a company's own prioritization, stakeholder engagement and remediation.
SLCP in Practice
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Elevate Textiles
Manufacturer | 2026
Using SLCP data to identify human rights risks and track performance across all their Tier 2 facilities. -
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G-Star
Brand | 2025
Using SLCP data to strengthen human rights due diligence and identify risks.
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Lenzing Group
Manufacturer | 2025
Using SLCP data as evidence for due diligence reporting obligations. -
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Fair Wear
Multi-stakeholder Initiative | 2025
Using aggregate SLCP data in Fair Wear’s HRDD Hub to inform risk scoring. -
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Shahi
Manufacturer | 2025
Using SLCP data to embed HRDD principles in compliance system and support implementation.
What Partners say
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Green Button
Christine Moser-Priewich
“Reliable factory-level data are essential for effective due diligence. SLCP assessment data can give companies practical insights to inform risk assessments under the Green Button framework and to plan and track measures with their suppliers. This will become even more important with Green Button 3.0, which will better integrate supply chain assessments into the human rights due diligence process of brands”.
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Fair Wear
Annabel Meurs
“Through our partnership, Fair Wear and SLCP are promoting data convergence, enabling businesses to further inform their in-depth, riskbased assessments. By integrating SLCP data into country risk profiles and factory-level assessments within the Fair Wear HRDD Hub, our collaboration promotes impactful risk-based human rights due diligence implementation, aligned with our shared vision of driving improvements in working conditions”.
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Policy Hub
Marina Prados
“Multi-stakeholder and industry initiatives have an important role to play in the new shape of EU due diligence. Collaborative approaches can reduce audit fatigue for suppliers, support companies' own policies, offer a more cost-effective route for key elements of due diligence, and contribute to better outcomes for workers. Shared, verified data from initiatives such as SLCP helps companies identify and prioritise risks and gain visibility further down the supply chain, where information is harder to obtain”.
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Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)
Chandrima Chatterjee
“With evolving policies and regulations, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), it is increasingly important for brands to recognise and accept a common assessment framework such as SLCP’s Converged Assessment Framework (CAF). By reducing duplication in social and labour assessments, the CAF can help ease the assessment burden on manufacturers, particularly MSMEs, while supporting their ability to meet buyer expectations and maintain access to global markets. CITI supports SLCP as a credible, collaborative initiative that helps advance human rights due diligence (HRDD) implementation and promotes more consistent and efficient social and labour assessment practices across global supply chains”.
Modern Slavery statements mentioning SLCP
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“An increasing number of facilities producing our branded apparel participate in either the Social Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) and/or the Better Work program, a collaborative facility monitoring and capability building initiative led by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Facilities participating in ILO Better Work are assessed by specialists selected by the ILO. These assessments are 100% unannounced and assessed against national labor laws and ILO Conventions, which includes instruments that directly cover forced labor. As of end of fiscal year 2025, 100% of in-scope Tier 1 facilities and 100% of Tier 2 strategic facilities are participating in SLCP (Social and Labor Convergence Program) or Better Work, an increase from 82% of Tier 2 strategic facilities that participated in 2024.
We regularly review our policies and procedures related to human rights risks in the supply chain (including forced labor and child labor). We also partner with external organizations such as SLCP and ILO-IFC Better Work to track and improve our vendors’ facilities’ performance.
We track relevant performance indicators for our suppliers through a color-coded system to rate facilities based on COVC, SLCP, and ILO Better Work assessments. High-performing facilities with no critical or few violations receive a green rating. Average performers are rated yellow, while facilities that need improvement on one or more serious issues are assigned a red rating. Critical, severe, and key violations have a greater negative impact on a facilities’ rating than more technical “non-compliance” violations.
In 2025, we assessed 100% of Tier 1 facilities. We publicly report aggregate findings of assessment results at the facilities that make our branded apparel on our website.
We decreased our share of red-rated facilities from 16% in 2016 to 1% by the end of 2025, and we exceeded our target of allocating at least 80% of our business spend to green-rated factories, with 86% in fiscal year 2025”
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“A self-assessment using the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) and Social Labour Convergence Program (SLCP): Through self-assessment, our suppliers report annual performance data and management system indicators, which helps us to understand their readiness and resilience.
A self-assessment verified by third‑parties: Our suppliers’ complete self‑assessments using FEM and SLCP, which are then independently verified by Cascale‑ and SLCP‑approved third parties. This verification ensures that the modules are accurately completed and supports the credibility of the results. “
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“Each audit includes tools, inter alia, to identify any form of forced labour, and to verify issues such as employment documentation –including age verification-, freedom of movement and the termination of agreements, the use of agents for recruiting staff and their relationship with the workers, including any potential payment of hiring fees, among others. 6,892 social audits were conducted in 2023. These audits include the social audits carried out using Inditex’s proprietary methodology and the audits carried out following the method of the Social & Labour Convergence Program (SLCP) initiative, of which Inditex has been a member since the inception of the Program. As a result of the social audits, our suppliers and manufacturers are classified in a social ranking based on their degree of compliance with the Code of Conduct for Manufacturers and Suppliers (CCMS).
In 2023, 98% of suppliers were classified with A and B ranking. Social audits also allow us to determine and identify the main challenges in each country in relation to the different aspects of the Code of Conduct, and this is also a valuable source of information for activities that are part of the Workers at the Centre strategy, as noticing the most critical issues in each geographic area lead to enhancing the due diligence process in the field of human rights.“
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“LS&Co. is a signatory of the Social and Labor Convergence Program (SLCP), a non-profit multistakeholder initiative that offers the tools and system to assess working conditions in global supply chains. This multi-stakeholder initiative includes data sharing and replaces the need for repetitive social audits. This increases transparency in global supply chains, helps combat audit fatigue, enables the redeployment of resources into further improving working conditions and enhances industry-wide consistency and strengthens accountability. In addition, the assessment framework supports joint remediation and shared responsibilities among brands in the same supplier factories.”
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“New Balance uses the Social and Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) assessment tool, the Converged Assessment Framework (CAF), to collect social and labor data. Facilities completing SLCP assessments can share detailed and credible data with a wide range of stakeholders, reducing the need for duplicative assessments and supporting the industry to use a consistent 2 In 2025, New Balance suppliers were assessed using the NB proprietary assessment tool or through the Converged Assessment Framework from SLCP. Page 5 of 7 data set. In 2025, about 54% of Tier 1 direct suppliers completed SLCP assessments and shared their data.”
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“Audits are guided by the Social Labor Convergence Project (“SLCP”), an industry-wide data collection tool that aims to create an efficient and sustainable solution for social audits, with a goal of alleviating audit fatigue for our suppliers and those of our licensees. The SLCP includes specific metrics relating to forced and child labor. In addition, as part of the audit, we seek workers’ views in confidentially, so that we can hear first-hand about factory conditions. We also monitorfactory conditions through assessments by independent organizations, such as the Better Work Programme. “
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“Per the program, the Global Citizenship team oversees the social compliance, auditing and monitoring of factories that manufacture RL-branded product by utilizing third party auditors, including the ILO-Better Work program, where available, and the approved verification bodies of the Social & Labor Convergence Program (“SLCP”). RL conducts social audits to assess the working conditions of supplier locations and, post-audit, continues to engage with suppliers to ensure implementation of corrective actions and appropriate remediation, where applicable. Where RL finds a supplier in violation of its standards, the supplier is expected to remediate the issue promptly and adequately. Where applicable, RL’s social auditing protocol also includes foreign migrant worker interviews to verify compliance with its Foreign Migrant Worker Standards. If RL identifies and validates an instance of noncompliance with our requirements related to eradicating modern slavery and human trafficking, RL will work with that supplier to make immediate changes; if the supplier is unable to make the changes RL requires, RL will cease business relations with that supplier.”
