Act ethically
The company should provide a clear description of its process for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption risks and impacts, focusing on specific locations or activities within its own operations. Additionally, the company has the chance to establish a comprehensive policy that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement. Alongside this, the company should also disclose its expenditures related to lobbying activities. Furthermore, it is recommended that the company require third-party lobbyists to adhere to its lobbying and political engagement policy.
Provide and promote decent work
While the company claims to pay higher than the state and national minimum wage in agricultural plants, it could also disclose that this wage is sufficient to support a decent standard of living for its employees and their families. Furthermore, the company has the chance to reveal the criteria it uses to determine a living wage in the regions where it operates. It also has the opportunity to disclose the steps it takes to support its suppliers in paying a living wage.
Additionally, the company can disclose a public commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Moreover, it can provide information on the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, broken down by significant locations of operation.
Respect human rights
Although the company has a publicly available policy statement that prohibits forced labor, child labor, and discrimination, it could further mention all the fundamental rights at work declared by the ILO, including the right to collective bargaining. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it could also emphasize all the ILO fundamental rights at work, including the right to collective bargaining.
The company provides information about its process for assessing human rights risks and some of the assessment results. However, there is room for improvement in clearly disclosing the results of these risk assessments. Furthermore, the company could elaborate on its approach to assessing and identifying what it considers to be its most significant human rights concerns. Additionally, the company could disclose a global system that addresses, prevents, or mitigates these salient human rights issues.