Organizacion Soriana

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

No leading practices were identified in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that 39% of its workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, the company provides information on the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, categorized by age group.

Respect human rights
The company provides multiple avenues for workers to raise complaints or concerns, including an email, contact number, and website managed by a third party. These channels are accessible to all employees. Importantly, it is clear that the channels are open for anyone to make a report, and complainants have the option to remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets 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
The company discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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 show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

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 room to improve its description of the process used to identify bribery and corruption risks and their impacts in specific locations or activities. It also has an opportunity to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Although the company provides a mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns about bribery and corruption, it’s unclear whether this can be done without fear of reprisals.

Furthermore, the company can publicly disclose a policy statement that emphasizes its commitment to refraining from making political contributions. It could also create a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. To foster greater accountability, the company might consider disclosing expenses related to lobbying activities. Lastly, enforcing its lobbying policy on third-party lobbyists would be valuable.

Provide and promote decent work
Although the company has a health and safety policy, there’s an opportunity to convey a more resolute commitment by employing stronger language. Additionally, the chance exists for the company to disclose a policy statement that encourages suppliers to respect the health and safety of their workers. It could also reveal its methods for monitoring the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

Moreover, there’s an opening for the company to share either a time-bound target for implementing living wages. The company could elaborate on the process it employs to determine living wage standards. Also noteworthy is the opportunity for the company to outline its strategies aimed at facilitating the adoption of living wage practices by its suppliers.

In terms of gender equality and empowerment, the company holds the potential to publicly underscore its dedication. This could be achieved through the disclosure of time-bound objectives for advancing gender equality and empowering women. The company has room to ensure that at least 30% of its highest governing body comprises women.

Respect human rights
The company has multiple opportunities to enhance transparency in its approach to human rights. Firstly, the company can disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting the human rights defined as fundamental by the ILO. This commitment can also extend to the company’s suppliers, by requesting their adherence to these fundamental rights.

Furthermore, the company can provide a clear description of its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts and disclose the results, covering not only its own operations but its supply chain. Additionally, the company has the potential to outline its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its most important human rights issues.

Moreover, the company has a chance to further its transparency by instituting a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate its most important human rights issues.