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We promote respectful labor practices in line with human rights and international labor standards
Some examples of good practice are listed below. You can contribute specific examples by clicking the ‘Share my case study’ button.
> Building screening mechanisms and ensuring consistent practices in own supply chains
> Conducting audits on suppliers to ensure that forced labour and child practices are not occurring within the supply chain
> Ensuring that auditors are proficient in local/sectoral insights and language; making audit results accessible to workers
> Identifying significant human rights impacts across their value chain; practicing human rights due diligence, and take actions preventing, mitigating and remediating negative impacts
> Raising awareness among employees and suppliers about what constitutes exploitation, forced labour, modern slavery child labour and people trafficking, and providing training on how to ensure it does not occur, and what to do when it does
> Implementing internal policies committing to freedom of association and collective bargaining, health and safety, no discrimination, no forced or child labour, combating workplace violence and rights awareness among workforce
> Establishing restitution mechanisms in the event of proven infraction of the above policies
> Monitoring and reporting on the compliance of these fundamental labour rights principles and practices, and carrying out due diligence to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for any adverse impacts that business causes or contributes to
> Aligning these policies with the highest industry / local / international standards
> Making these policies publicly available and communicating them both internally and externally to all employees, suppliers and other stakeholders
Signatories to the IFRA-IOFI Sustainability Charter can complete a simple online form to contribute specific examples - just click the button below.
A non-exhaustive list of initiatives is set out below, aiming to provide a direction for companies eager to go further on this topic:
Comply with respective national implementing regulations arising from the 8 Fundamental Conventions of International Labour Organisation (ILO):
1. Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87),
2. Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98),
3. Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) (and its 2014 Protocol); also download the mobile app: Eliminating and Preventing Forced Labour – Checkpoints for companies, or download the related pdf.
4. Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105),
5. Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138),
6. Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182); also download the mobile app: Eliminating and Preventing Child Labour – Checkpoints for companies; or download the related pdf.
7. Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100),
8. Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111).
Comply with respective national implementing regulations arising from the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
Follow the SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of food and agriculture systems) guidelines
Follow the guidance of ISO 20400(Sustainable Procurement) or ISO 26000 (Social Responsibility)
Participate in internationally recognized multi-stakeholder initiatives such as:
> SMETA (SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit) – [Ethical trade audit],
> EcoVadis – [CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) rating agency],
> AIM-PROGRESS – [Exchange platform of responsible sourcing practices],
> ETI (Ethical Trade Initiative) – [Multi-stakeholder initiative promoting ethical trade],
> FLA (Fair Labor Association) – [Multi-stakeholder initiative protecting workers’ rights],
> SAI (Social Accountability International) SA8000 Standard – [Social certification standard],
> OECD-FOA Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains,
> Rainforest Alliance – [Multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to ensuring sustainable livelihoods and conserving biodiversity],
> UEBT (Union for Ethical Bio Trade),
> IDH (the Sustainable Trade Initiative) – [Multi-stakeholder initiatives driving new economically viable approaches in commodity sectors and sourcing areas – Example: SVI – Sustainable Vanilla Initiative – EU focus],
> Others.
Signatories to the IFRA-IOFI Sustainability Charter can provide input on these frameworks and programs, or suggest others.
Available business disclosure: Does the Company system have a policy/code that addresses labour rights and standards along the value chain? If yes, is compliance with this policy promoted by the Company system along the value chain? If so, how? If no, what is the proportion of those who have a policy/code?
Unit: N/A
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF-3.5
Available business disclosure: Do ALL other major employers along the value chain have a policy/code on labour rights and standards?
Unit: N/A
Available business disclosure: Minimum number of weeks’ notice typically provided to employees and their representatives prior to the implementation of significant operational changes that could substantially affect them.
Unit: Number of weeks
Source: GRI Standard 402-1
Available business disclosure: For organizations with collective bargaining agreements, report whether the notice period and provisions for consultation and negotiation are specified in collective agreements.
Unit: Number of days
Source: GRI Standard 402-1
Available business disclosure: Does the Company system have a policy/code that addresses rights’ awareness (including employment conditions) among its workforce? i) Does the policy/code extend to the whole value chain? If yes, provide details on the policy commitment and monitoring.
Unit: N/A
Available business disclosure: Percentage of new suppliers that were screened using social criteria.
Unit: % of new suppliers
Source: GRI Standard 414-1
Available business disclosure: Number of suppliers assessed for social impacts.
Unit: Number of suppliers
Source: GRI Standard 414-2
Available business disclosure: Number of suppliers identified as having significant actual and potential negative social impacts.
Unit: Number of suppliers
Source: GRI Standard 414-2
Available business disclosure: Significant actual and potential negative social impacts identified in the supply chain.
Unit: N/A
Source: GRI Standard 414-2
Available business disclosure: Percentage of suppliers identified as having significant actual and potential negative social impacts with which improvements were agreed upon as a result of assessment.
Unit: % of suppliers
Source: GRI Standard 414-2
Available business disclosure: Percentage of suppliers identified as having significant actual and potential negative social impacts with which relationships were terminated as a result of assessment, and why.
Unit: % of suppliers
Source: GRI Standard 414-2
Available business disclosure: Does the Company system have a policy/code that addresses labour rights and standards along the value chain? If yes, is compliance with this policy promoted by the Company system along the value chain? If so, how?
Unit: N/A
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF – 3.5
Available business disclosure: Do ALL other major employers along the value chain have a policy/code on labour rights and standards? If no, what is the proportion of those who have a policy/code?
Unit: %
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF – 3.5
Available business disclosure: Are there discrepancies between the Company's and other employers' codes/ policies and minimum standards (as recommended by ETI)? If so, what are the discrepancies?
Unit: N/A
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF – 3.5
Available business disclosure: Do ALL major employers along the value chain demonstrate consistent practices for informing and/or training workers on their rights under national labour and employment law?
Unit: %
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF – 9.5
Available business disclosure: Do ALL major employers along the value chain provide access and copies of CBAs, either directly to workers or through representatives, in the local or understood language? In areas where illiteracy is high, this means providing information verbally to concerned workers (if relevant).
Unit: %
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF – 9.7
Available business disclosure: Does the Company system screen and monitor its major suppliers for compliance with labour rights and standards (as per the Company's code/ policy)? (i) If yes, what are the mechanisms in place to monitor compliance? (ii) What are the core indicators evaluated? (iii) Does the Company have a mechanism or system in place to deal with suppliers who are non-compliant?
Unit: N/A
Source: UN Global Compact-Oxfam Poverty Footprint PF – 3.6
Available business disclosure: What is the typical lead time for orders (which can impact working conditions in the supply chain)?
Unit: Minutes/hours/days
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