Act ethically
While the company aligns with specific regulations on bribery and corruption, it has an opportunity to disclose a general commitment prohibiting such practices, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Additionally, it could describe the process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities within its operations. Furthermore, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to report anonymously or reveal their identity.
Moreover, the company has the opportunity to create a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specify that it does not make political contributions, and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities
Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement expecting its suppliers to prioritize worker health and safety. Additionally, while the company conducts root-cause analysis for all declared incident and routine safety audits, it can also reveal its mechanism for monitoring supplier health and safety performance.
Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Although it has partnered with the Sustainable Trade Initiative to assess farmers’ living income gap, it can also describe how it supports the payment of a living wage by its other business relationships.
Moreover, while the company has initiatives related to women’s empowerment, there is an opportunity for the company to explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense. It could disclose time-bound targets and report data, including the ratio of women’s basic salary and remuneration to men’s.
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 within its operations and supply chain. While the company states that it has implemented a process to identify, prevent and mitigate adverse impacts on human rights, it could elaborate on this process of identifying risks and impacts within its own operations and supply chain. It could further describe its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues and it has an opportunity to disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.