Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets/objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company can report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Furthermore, it could disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of the suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. While it has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify if there is an option to remain anonymous, and if the mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders. Further, the company could disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment that expects its suppliers to commit to respect the health and safety of their workers, along with information on how it monitors supplier compliance.

Additionally, while the company states that it pays fair living wages to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. It could further elaborate on the method employed to determine a living wage in all regions where it operates, and divulge how it aids suppliers in implementing such wages.

The company has a statement on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment but it has an opportunity to translate it into a commitment in a public policy document. It could further disclose time-bound targets related to these goals, along with disclosure of the ratio between women’s and men’s basic salary and remuneration.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respect the ILO fundamental rights at work. It could also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. Additionally, it could further explain how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues, and describe how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are considered. Moreover, it could reveal a global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.