What tool will Better Work be using in the future?
Better Work will use Step 1 of the CAF/Tool 1.4 to the extent it captures data from our own Compliance Assessment Tool (CAT) and includes essential data points to determine compliance with national laws and international labour standards. It will be introduced progressively for Better Work assessments from Q1 2021 in countries, subject to constituent priorities and needs (see below for country roll-out plans).
Step 1 will include a national law overlay (containing guidance on core international labour standards, national laws and ILO Norms), to support compliance determinations in each Better Work country.
BW has not contributed to the content of CAF Step 2 and Step 3, and will not assess against these steps. The BW platform will allow factory self-assessed data for Steps 2 and 3 to be entered and transmitted to the SLCP Gateway. Better Work will encourage bipartite committees to complete the full self-assessments and support them where appropriate. SLCP will accept such Step 2 and 3 data as an ‘enhanced self-assessment’. See question 22 in Section 2 for more details.
BW will also provide information on social dialogue and management systems separately through its own reporting.
During 2021, SLCP and Better Work will make further improvements to the tool, including identifying whether some aspects of Step 2 can be integrated into Step 1 of a Version 1.5 tool to be released in 2022.