Act ethically
The company has an anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy in which it prohibits bribery and corruption, however, it is not clear that it is mandatory and that supplier contracts/relationships could be terminated with a breach of the supplier. Furthermore, it could disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption and a grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns. The company also has an opportunity to disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document and state that it does not make political contributions and divulge its lobbying expenditures.
Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain and provide evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards. Additionally, the company could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support its suppliers in paying a living wage.
The company commits to provide a protective environment at the workplace for all its employees and promotes gender equality, as well as empowering women. However, 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
While the company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the human rights that the ILO has declared to be fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. However, the wording “strive to ensure” is not considered strong enough fora commitment to respect human rights.
Additionally, the company could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers. It could give a description of a process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. The company could also disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues by preventing, mitigating or remediating the latter.