Supply chain social and labor data for brands and retailers.

A traditional social audit is typically conducted separately for each brand customer, generating data in that brand’s specific format that cannot easily be compared across other customers or over time. The Higg FSLM, stewarded and governed by Cascale and implemented globally through the Worldly sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform, is a standardized assessment that facilities complete once and share with multiple brand partners — producing comparable, structured data aligned to the frameworks that responsible sourcing policies already reference, including wages, working hours, freedom of association, and health and safety.

Worldly helps brands identify a range of social and labor risks at the facility level, including wage gaps, excessive working hours, barriers to freedom of association, health and safety deficiencies, and structural issues such as gender inequity and limitations on worker voice. Data from the Social and Labor Convergence Program indicates that the majority of Higg FSLM assessments reveal at least one legal non-compliance — underscoring that social risk in supply chains is widespread and that identifying it requires consistent, facility-level data rather than audit certificates alone.

Social and labor data from supplier facilities is increasingly required to meet regulatory due diligence obligations, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which requires brands to identify and address human rights and labor risks across their supply chains. Consistent, comparable data at the facility level — covering wages, working conditions, and worker rights — gives brands the verifiable record that regulators require, as opposed to audit certificates that confirm a point-in-time status without documenting ongoing monitoring or remediation.

Worldly’s social data infrastructure is designed to surface more than pass/fail compliance status — it helps brands and their suppliers identify structural conditions that drive labor risks, including gender inequity, wage gaps, and barriers to worker voice. Understanding whether a facility meets a compliance threshold tells a brand very little about why conditions exist or what it takes to change them. By tracking social performance over time and at scale across a supplier base, brands can identify patterns, prioritize engagement where it will have the greatest impact on worker welfare, and measure whether their interventions are producing real improvement.