Cellnex
ESRS disclosure: ESRS S2 \ DR S2-1 \ Paragraph 17a
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- Provide a detailed description of your company's human rights policy commitments concerning value chain workers. Include the processes and mechanisms in place to ensure compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, or the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Focus on material matters and outline your general approach to respecting the human rights and labor rights of these workers.
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Question Id: S2-1_02
Cellnex is deeply committed to promoting sustainability, transparency, and ethical practices throughout its value chain. These commitments are reflected in its policies, which address key aspects of human rights, labor conditions, and health and safety. Cellnex adheres to strict standards outlined in its Health and Safety Policy, conducting regular workplace assessments, ensuring compliance with electromagnetic emission regulations, and providing ongoing safety training. These initiatives aim to enhance workplace safety.
Cellnex's Human Rights Policy addresses material impacts on value chain workers by committing to uphold labour rights, health, safety, non-discrimination, and equal remuneration. This policy aims to identify and mitigate human rights risks and prioritises the prevention of human rights violations and labour risks across operations.
Both the Health and Safety Policy and the Human Rights Policy cover all value chain workers, including employees, suppliers, and partners, without distinguishing specific groups. These policies aim to ensure the respect and protection of human rights, aligning with international standards such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, ILO conventions, and OECD Guidelines. Cellnex's commitment includes preventing, identifying, evaluating, and addressing any adverse human rights impacts that may affect these groups.
Cellnex's Board of Directors provides strategic oversight of human rights initiatives, embedding these principles into the company's culture and operations while monitoring compliance. To this end, Cellnex has channels in place to foster awareness, participation, and responsibility among employees, promoting an inclusive culture in which human rights concerns can be raised transparently.
Cellnex actively engages with value chain workers through regular assessments and audits, enhancing transparency and accountability. The company implements grievance mechanisms and remediation processes to address potential human rights violations, ensuring all workers are protected and have accessible avenues for remedy when their rights are impacted.
To ensure compliance, Cellnex conducts annual Human Rights Due Diligence exercises, identifying key actual and potential impacts across its value chain, following frameworks set by the OECD and UN, and prioritising ethical practices and stakeholder well-being.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 90%
- Does the undertaking disclose the process for setting targets related to managing material negative impacts, advancing positive impacts, and managing material risks and opportunities, specifically in relation to value chain workers? Furthermore, does the undertaking provide information on whether and how it engages directly with workers in the value chain, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies with insight into their situation? Additionally, considering material negative impacts affecting value chain workers that may be linked to entities or operations outside the undertaking's direct control, does the undertaking disclose whether and how it seeks to use leverage in its business relationships to manage these impacts? This may involve the use of commercial leverage, such as enforcing contractual requirements or implementing incentives, other forms of leverage within the relationship, such as providing training or capacity-building on workers’ rights, or collaborative leverage with peers or other actors, such as initiatives aimed at responsible recruitment or ensuring workers receive an adequate wage.
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Question Id: S2-4_13
To ensure the highest OHS standards in the performance of value chain activities, OHS Standard is included in the procurement processes of critical suppliers and contractors to maintain an adequate system for selecting, monitoring and evaluating the performance of suppliers and contractors, through three mechanisms: OHS Standard Principles and Absolute Rules, Supplier Qualification, and Tendering and Contracts.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 30%