Act ethically
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in its own operations, and disclose a confidential and anonymous mechanism accessible to all stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.
Furthermore, it has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach, specify that it does not make political contributions, and divulge its expenditures on lobbying activities.
Provide and promote decent work
While the company has a health and safety policy and expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to formalize these commitments. It has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or confirm that it has achieved this goal. It could also outline how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.
Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment. and reveal related time-bound targets at the group level. It could also report information including female representation on the highest governing 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 human rights and the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. It discloses statements expecting its suppliers to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work, but has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statements into a formal commitment.
Furthermore, the company also has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and supply chain. It could also describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, and reveal a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.