Driscoll’s

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

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company is committed to reducing plastic use and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. They have implemented policies and participate in activities to achieve this goal. Additionally, the company transparently discloses quantitative data on their progress in reducing plastic use and utilizing sustainable packaging.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company primarily produces and markets fresh produce. The production of fruit and vegetables contributes to healthy and sustainable diets.

Child labour
The company requires its suppliers to prohibit child labour and verify the age of recruited workers. It requires its suppliers to ensure that specific policies and procedures are implemented to prevent the employment of children below 15 years or below the legal employment age.

Provide and promote decent work
The company maintains a publicly available policy statement that requires its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Furthermore, the company provides detailed information regarding the methods it employs to monitor the health and safety performance of these relationships.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that outlines its expectation for suppliers to respect the core labor rights set by the ILO, concerning forced labour, child labour, and discrimination, and the right to collective bargaining and freedom of association.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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 sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1, 2 and 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 a target to optimise the use of fertilisers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

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 a commitment to address food insecurity and malnutrition.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to showcase that all its operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification program or another widely recognized industry-specific certification. Additionally, the company can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations. Additionally, it could also indicate how it is building 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
While the company does not allow suppliers to retain workers’ personal documents and restrict workers’ freedom of movement, it has an opportunity to disclose similar commitments for its operations. Furthermore, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees or related costs in its value chain. To conclude, the company has an opportunity to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect land and natural resource ownership and use, along with related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain levels to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing, or making other land-use arrangements and to negotiate with them for adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It can also disclose the procedures it employs to identify and address bribery and corruption in its own operations, and establish a confidential and anonymous grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns without fear of reprisal.

Additionally, the company could transparently disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, state its non-participation in political contributions, and reveal its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment on respecting the health and safety of its workers. Additionally. it has the chance to disclose a deadline for achieving a living wage to all workers, or reveal that it has achieved this goal. In addition, it could detail how it determines a living wage for the regions it operates in and how it supports its suppliers to pay this wage standard.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights but has an opportunity to place it in a formal policy document, including but not limited to fundamental human rights at work as declared by the ILO.

The company can also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including those of its suppliers. Furthermore, the company has the possibility to describe its method for determining its most salient human rights issues, considering factors like geographical, economic, and social aspects. Lastly, it has the chance to disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues, aiming to prevent, lessen, or remedy them.