Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption and specifies that a grievance mechanism allows stakeholders to raise related concerns. It also could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement beyond a personal level in a public policy document and state that it does not make political contributions and divulge its lobbying expenditures.
Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it respects the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain, it could formalise this commitment in a public policy document and provide evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards covering its entire supply chain.
Additionally, although the company is committed to paying a legal wage and expects the same for its suppliers, it has an opportunity to 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.
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 policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain.
Additionally, while the company conducts a supply chain due diligence, it could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. It could also specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered such as geographical, economic and social factors, and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.