adidas: 2023 Post-Accreditation Report
In 2023, adidas, a Fair Labor Accredited company, has successfully demonstrated alignment with Milestone 5 Evaluation Year 1, which included: Fair Labor Principles 4 (Training for Suppliers and Production Staff), 5 (Monitoring) and 6 (Functioning Grievance Mechanism). The remaining principles will be evaluated in 2024 and 2025.
adidas 2023 Performance Summary: Principles 4, 5, 6
adidas scored over 90% on all three principles evaluated in 2023, representing a high level of performance on implementation.
Fair Labor Accredited companies, such as adidas, are reevaluated on FLA’s 10 principles over a three-year cycle. The 2023 Milestone 5 Evaluation evaluated how adidas maintained the alignment of its social compliance system with the following set of principles after its Accreditation:
- Principle 4: Training for Suppliers and Production Staff: Commitment to train relevant supplier management, or all management staff and employees at owned facilities, on workplace standards and track effectiveness of supplier workforce training;
- Principle 5: Monitoring: Commitment to conduct workplace standards compliance monitoring; and
- Principle 6: Functioning Grievance Mechanisms: Commitment to ensure workers have, or provide workers with, access to functioning grievance mechanisms, which include multiple reporting channels (of which at least one is confidential).
The chart below highlights the company’s performance (in percentage) against those three principles at the time of publication. FLA expects companies to continuously work toward reaching and maintaining complete alignment with standards. FLA staff track progress in closing the gaps identified in the Milestone 5 Evaluation, which is reflected in the following year’s updated report, along with scores for Principles 1, 2 and 3 (to be published in 2025) and Principles 7, 8, 9 and 10 (to be published in 2026).
2023 Milestone 5 Evaluation Performance (Principle Scores in %)
