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What is the Flower Label ?

Today, more and more flowers come from far-away places like Africa and Latin America. The Flower Label Program (FLP) is a joint initiative between human rights organisations, trade unions and the flower trade which is aimed at guaranteeing basic workers rights and environmental protection in flower production.

Farms that participate in this program are allowed to use the FLP label on their flowers if they fulfill the following criteria

Living wages for their employees
Freedom of association
Prohibition of child labour
Freedom of association
Freedom of association
Integrated plant protection
Integrated plant protection
The specific successes of this programme are highlighted below:

Through our initiative, many female flower workers have received permanent contracts and paid maternity leave for the first time. Minimum wages and additional social benefits are guaranteed. Working and environmental conditions have also improved as a result of this program. In many African countries, workers often live on the flower farms; proper houses with adequate water supply are therefore also a requirement for entitlement to use the label.

Independent inspection teams audit FLP member farms on the spot. Human rights groups and trade unions also are entitled to carry out spot checks. Trustworthy complaint centres for employees are set up in each country.

While this new program cannot promise a standard of living like in industrialized countries, plantations which grow flowers with the FLP label guarantee humane and dignified working conditions for their employees.

While this new program cannot promise a standard of living like in industrialized countries, plantations which grow flowers with the FLP label guarantee humane and dignified working conditions for their employees.

The Protestant aid organisation, Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World), the flower wholesale and import organisation (BGI), the professional association of German florists (FDF), the international human rights organisation (FIAN), the industrial trade union for agriculture and the environment (IG BAU) and the children's aid organisation (Terre des Homes) carry joint responsibility for this program.