Growers earn engagement stars in ECIP LAB by actively engaging with the platform’s tools and resources to assess and improve their labor management systems. After being invited by a supplier, growers create an account, invite team members and begin evaluating their labor management systems across more than 50 different work areas. As growers complete assessments, access educational content, and revisit systems over time, their Engagement Profile improves—earning stars that are visible to their supplier. Suppliers do not have access to a grower’s specific answers to the self-assessment. Instead, suppliers can only see the grower’s engagement profile. Buyers see only aggregated and anonymized data that summarizes labor practices across all of a supplier’s participating growers.
Watch the demo below for a walkthrough of the ECIP engagement profile, from grower to buyer dashboard:
Improving Your Engagement Profile
Assessment Channel
To earn this star, growers must complete the assessment in Grower LAB, understanding that their responses remain confidential and are not shared outside their organization. Growers must also confirm that their responses accurately reflect the current status of their management systems, supporting credible and honest engagement.
Learning Channel
Growers earn this star by creating action plans for all high-priority improvement areas and uploading at least one completed Continuous Improvement Action Plan. Growers must also confirm their willingness to provide non-sensitive documentation, if requested, for areas identified as strengths to support peer learning and best practice sharing.
Ethical Recruitment
Growers earn this star by demonstrating active engagement in ethical recruitment practices through one of two pathways. Growers may either engage Farm Labor Contractors through FLC LAB or upload approved ethical recruitment documentation, including a Stronger Together 360 Baseline Progress Report, Verité Recruitment Cost Breakdown Table or EPP Continuous Improvement Action Plan.
Advanced Engagement
To earn this star, growers must confirm their commitment to completing the assessment credibly and understand that their Engagement Profile is shared with suppliers. Growers must also express willingness to share best practices documentation and confirm that they expect workforce survey responses to align with their self-assessment responses.
Approved Program
Growers earn this star by being part of a field-level approved program. Growers upload their program documentation within Grower LAB. However to have the $200 grower fee waived, growers must send their program type, number and program expiration date to support@ethicalcharter.org.