Central to BIO EXIM for organic clothing production is a labor and social compliance that draws from a bottom-up approach. The compliance is evolved by the worker-owned enterprises themselves through a process that seeks to continuously improve labor standards and social protection, looking at development aspects beyond the workplace and towards the family and community. Such development compliance works to improve each collective from its current level of organic productions, rather than attempting to achieve a top-down standard.

BIO EXIM believes that though well intentioned, monitoring a compliance code introduced by international buyers for ensuring decent working conditions of the workers is extremely difficult, if not impossible, when it comes to outsourcing practices. Therefore, the code of conduct or other social standards often become tokenistic, since it is externally imposed and not inherent to the existing work-culture.Therefore for its organic clothing manufacturing carefully considering experiences of existing labels and social compliance efforts, the development compliance proposed by BIO EXIM is an inbuilt and organically grown practice that seeks to ensure the wellbeing of each worker owned enterprise and its members involved in making of organic clothes. It also seeks to improve each enterprise from its current level, rather than attempting to achieve an absolute standard. The goals set by the people themselves, for labor standards improvement, in the manner perceived by them are more achievable and honest somewhat which is required in reality for organic clothing productions in accordance to FLO standards for organic clothing, rather than lofty external standards, which are very often proclaimed only to please international clients, much to the detriment of the workers and sometimes the industry, since there are already several labels existing.

Furthermore, the efforts of BIO EXIM development compliance are towards continuous improvement in production of organic clothing rather than be restricted to merely achieving the minimum compliance an enterprise has to fulfill; for instance, the compliance BIO EXIM propagates goes beyond minimum wages, and the minimum level of protection set by legal provisions while production of organic clothing. The development compliance standards include a commitment for continuous learning & regular assessment of group performance, enrolment of their children to school (no child labor), working at a common workplace, regular contribution to membership, contribution to social security where possible and percentage share of profit to collective while in the process of manufacturing organic clothing.