AmRest

Lobbying
AmRest discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates has policies and partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
The company states that an executive-level body is responsible for its global tax strategy. It also provides information about income tax payments across all tax jurisdictions. Additionally, the company has a policy against bribery and corruption and publicly commits to safeguarding personal data. Furthermore, the company clarifies that it refrains from making any political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that 24% of its total direct operations workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements and discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category. Furthermore, the company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights along with a grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability target and to report (potential) misalignments.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process and the outcome of the process. It could also disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Concerning accountability of its sustainability strategy, while the company assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management, it has an opportunity to assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues and disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company currently discloses its main raw material consumption, but it has the opportunity to also disclose its inputs in accordance with an international standard. Additionally, the company does not provide quantitative reporting on its overall circularity performance across the group. Furthermore, the company has the potential to disclose its efforts in enhancing soil health or promoting agrobiodiversity within its production or sourcing practices. Moreover, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose a specific target for improving soil health in its production or sourcing practices, and to report on the progress achieved towards that target.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not disclose a commitment to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Also, the company does not disclose its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment against bribery and corruption by including anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships, and establishing a process to address these issues along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints. Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, and transparently disclosing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to its operations and supply chain workers’ health and safety by disclosing a policy statement and providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology, and disclose strategies to support 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 an opportunity to disclose its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.