Our Employees

Our employees are our most important asset, and over 30% of our employees have been with us in excess of fifteen years. Comet's establishment was based on this vital and skilled employee base that would have disappeared due to plant closure by another company, had Comet not been founded. Capital and employee skills came together in 1986 to retain this asset.

We are also members of the Fair Labor Association, as Category C Licensees. The FLA was established in 1999, and is a collaborative effort of socially responsible companies, colleges and universities, and civil society organizations to improve working conditions in factories around the world. The FLA has developed a Workplace Code of Conduct, based on ILO standards, and created a practical monitoring, remediation and verification process to achieve those standards.

The FLA is a brand accountability system that places the onus on companies to voluntarily achieve the FLA’s labor standards in the factories manufacturing their products. Universities affiliated with the FLA ensure that the licensees supplying their licensed products manufacture or source those products from factories in which workers’ rights are protected.