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- Provide a detailed description of your organization's human rights policy commitments concerning value chain workers. Include an explanation of 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 specifically on the material aspects and the general approach to implementing measures that provide and/or enable remedies for human rights impacts.
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Question Id: S2-1_04
GN is committed to ensuring that human rights are safeguarded and that we manage our material sustainability matters related to value chain workers. Our human rights policy commitments cover all value chain workers across all geographies in which we operate to enable identification, assessment, and management, or remediation of our material IROs. GN is committed to the UN’s principles of responsible business, having been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2010. Over the last reporting period, we have observed no cases of non-respect to these principles involving value chain workers in our upstream or downstream value chain. To address our human rights policy commitments, GN has introduced a number of initiatives and due diligence processes to ensure we are able to engage with value chain workers or their proxies and representatives to take measures enabling remedy of our negative impacts. Furthermore, we strive to set policy commitments that inform GN’s overall strategy and work in this area, ensuring we take into account the interests, views, and rights of workers in the value chain.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 85%
- Provide detailed information regarding the intended or achieved positive outcomes of initiatives or processes for value chain workers. This should include the process for setting targets related to managing material negative impacts, advancing positive impacts, and managing material risks and opportunities. Specify whether and how the undertaking engaged directly with workers in the value chain, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies with insight into their situation. Additionally, describe the actions taken on material impacts on value chain workers, the approaches to managing material risks and pursuing material opportunities related to these workers, and the effectiveness of those actions. Include any initiatives or processes based on the needs of affected workers and the progress in implementing such initiatives or processes.
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Question Id: S2-4_16
GN has implemented several initiatives aimed at delivering positive impacts for value chain workers. These include managing IROs on working conditions and equal treatment through 46 supplier audits across China and Southeast Asia in 2024. Major findings related to occupational health and safety, excessive overtime hours, overuse of dispatched workers, and inadequate parental leave have been resolved or are subject to mandatory corrective action. GN uses the FRDM platform to monitor suppliers who pose a high risk of forced or child labor violations. The EcoVadis supply chain data platform has been implemented to onboard suppliers and request data on social indicators, allowing GN to gain insights connected to policy commitments. These actions are assessed for effectiveness by tracking progress and ensuring compliance with policy objectives.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 85%