Subway

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

Animal welfare
The company’s policies and/or targets address all of the key animal welfare issues for each species.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Child labour
The company requires suppliers to prohibit child labour and verify the age of recruited workers.

Act ethically
The company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy committing to respecting the health and safety of their workers in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, it discloses the methods it uses to monitor health and safety performance of its suppliers. Moreover, it has a public expectation that its business relationships shall not require workers to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to respecting the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company provides a case study describing how it has acted on a salient human rights risk issue. Moreover, it indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

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, it can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally,it 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 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to phase out the prophylactic use of antibiotics across all species, geographies and products, and report progress against the targets.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. It could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, it can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as report progress against this target.

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 demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to implement front-of-pack labels or other nutrition labels that are consumer-friendly and assist consumers in making healthier food choices. Additionally, it has the chance to disclose the percentage of products or menus for which their front-of-pack labeling schemes have been implemented.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company discloses that suppliers may be placed on probation programs to address child labour issues. However, it could disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and 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.

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.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and describe its process for identifying such misconduct. Additionally, while the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships, the commitment is restricted in scope as it is linked to local laws. Moreover, it could disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document. It could also declare in a policy statement that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
Although the company affirms adherence to local wage regulations and expects the same from its suppliers, it has an opportunity to specify a specific deadline for paying its workers a living wage. This could extend to mandating and assisting suppliers in paying the same to their workers. It could also elaborate on its approach to determining living wage in each region.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. This commitment can be reinforced further by sharing related time-bound objectives, and disclosing data including the ratio of women’s basic salary and remuneration compared to men’s.

Respect human rights
While the company commits to respecting the human rights of workers throughout its value chain, it has an opportunity to formalise this commitment in a public policy document. Additionally, it could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. It could further explain how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues, and describe how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are taken into account. Moreover, it could also reveal a global system to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.