The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) is a specialist trade association for labour providers promoting responsible recruitment, to ensure the provision, use and management of labour is recognised as a model of good practice. ALP has a range of members, from the largest national employment businesses to small local providers servicing the consumer goods supply chain across the food processing, horticultural and wider manufacturing, industrial, warehousing and distribution sectors. All organisations in the supply chain are welcomed as Associate Members. The ALP’s aim is for “The provision of temporary labour to the UK consumer goods supply chain to be a model of good practice” We achieve this through: • Raising Standards - improving standards of labour provision beyond base compliance. • Promoting Growth - raising awareness of labour providers’ contribution to supply chain efficiency. • Responsibility to workers – supporting labour providers and users to meet their legal and ethical responsibilities. • Sustainable Supply - facilitating the definition and application of fair pay and charge rates that enable business sustainability. • Proportionate Regulation – advocating proportionate regulation of labour provision that facilitates fair competition. • Sector Support – Championing the work of labour providers ALP has also developed two ground-breaking and complementary initiatives to support responsible recruitment: - The Responsible Recruitment Toolkit (www.responsiblerecruitmenttoolkit.org), a practical online resource base to build businesses’ capacity to become responsible recruiters through step-by-step guidance, videos, resources and workshops. - Clearview (www.clearviewassurance.com), a pioneering certification scheme which independently verifies labour provider’s efforts to recruit responsibly.
