What auditors review
Buyer social compliance audits combine a factory walk, worker interviews and a document review. The document review usually covers the last 12 months of time, pay and leave records, and checks them against each other: if the overtime register says one thing and the payslips another, that is a finding. The most common failures are two sets of books for hours, weeks over 60 hours, late wages and missing age documents. Read the audit preparation guide