How does the FLA monitor factories that manufacture goods for colleges and universities?
Colleges and universities affiliated with the FLA require their licensees to sign on with the FLA and ensure that the FLA Workplace Code of Conduct is implemented throughout their supply chains. Depending on their annual revenues, each licensee falls under one of the FLA’s licensee categories, B, C, or D. When licensees sign up with the FLA, they are required to provide the FLA with a list of factories they use for manufacturing university products, and must set up a compliance program to meet FLA company obligations. The FLA has developed an independent monitoring, remediation and verification labor compliance system that it enforces with companies and university licensees in the FLA program. In fall 2007, the FLA is introducing a pilot of the Enhanced Licensee Program. The Enhanced Program is a strong program of online and offline tools and systems to encourage greater compliance from smaller, Category C collegiate licensees.
