Social Responsibility & Engagement
Our Commitment
We are committed to selecting licensees who agree to produce products under fair, safe, and humane working conditions and who demonstrate management processes that enable them to achieve progress toward implementation of these standards throughout their supply chain.
UCLA’s Expectations
UCLA is committed to selecting licensees who agree to produce products under fair, safe, and humane working conditions and who demonstrate management processes that enable them to achieve progress toward implementation of these standards throughout their supply chain.
UC Trademark Licensing Code of Conduct (“UC Code”)
In 1998, the University of California adopted a code of conduct concerning fair labor standards and practices and made it applicable to all of its trademark licensees. The UC Trademark Licensing Code of Conduct (“UC Code”) requires supply chain transparency and disclosure and addresses standards to be met in the follow areas:
· Wages and Benefits
· Child Labor
· Forced Labor
· Health & Safety
· Nondiscrimination
· Women’s Rights
· Harassment and Abuse
· Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
UCLA Licensees & Supply Chain Transparency
Licensees are expected to trace and disclose their supply chains and to provide updates in a timely manner.
Initiatives and Resources
•Bangladesh and Pakistan:
UCLA licensees/prospective licensees who use supplier factories located in Bangladesh and Pakistan are obligated to become signatories to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (“Accord”)and any subsequent organization to the Accord designated by UCLA.
•Fair Labor Association (FLA):
The FLA is a collaborative effort of companies, colleges and universities, and civil society organizations, seeking to create lasting solutions to abusive labor practices. UCLA
•Worker Rights Consortium (WRC):
The WRC is an independent labor rights monitoring organization, conducting investigations of working conditions in factories around the globe.
•EcoVadis:
EcoVadis is a sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains that assesses important dimensions of success for business, including social sustainability, environmental sustainability, ethics, and sustainable procurement practices.