Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company prohibits suppliers from using child labour, it could to require them to have an age-verification system in place.
Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has set up initiatives to improve the productivity of the farms but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.
Forced labour
The company has the opportunity to disclose a prohibition on paying recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, as well as retaining workers’ personal documents or restricting their freedom of movement. Currently, it discloses that it prohibits the payment of recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job within its supply chain, and it also prohibits the retention of migrant workers’ personal documents. However, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose a commitment to prohibit the retention of personal documents for all workers in the supply chain. Additionally, it has the opportunity to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.
Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.
Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.
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.
