Key Topic: Multi-Stakeholder and Industry-Wide Codes of Conduct

Jon Esformes (left), Operating Partner of Pacific Tomato Growers, shakes hands with the CIW’s Lucas Benitez on August 12, 2010, after signing a groundbreaking agreement to implement the Fair Food Code of Conduct on Pacific’s farms
Photo credit: Coalition of Immokalee Workers

In certain industries, groups of companies have come together to develop joint social compliance systems that individual companies can adopt by joining the group. Some, but not all, are taking a worker-driven social compliance approach.

Examples of industry codes include: 

There are also industry groups that do not require member adherence to a specific code but have developed general policy statements and statements of commitment for members to adopt. Examples include the Automotive Industry Action Group* and the Consumer Goods Forum’s* Guidance on the Priority Industry Principles on forced labor.

Similarly, there are multilateral and multi-stakeholder groups that have developed guidance for a particular product or line of products. Examples include: