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ESRS disclosure: ESRS S2 \ DR S2-5 \ Paragraph 42 c; ESRS S2
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- Provide a comprehensive description of your company's human rights policy commitments that pertain to value chain workers. Include details on the processes and mechanisms implemented to ensure compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Focus on material matters and outline the general approach adopted by your company in this context.
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Question Id: S2-1_01
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 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
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 a detailed description of your organization's human rights policy commitments concerning value chain workers. Include information on 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, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Focus specifically on material issues and outline your general approach to engaging with value chain workers.
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Question Id: S2-1_03
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 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%
- Does the undertaking's policy concerning value chain workers explicitly address issues of trafficking in human beings, forced or compulsory labour, and child labour? Additionally, does the undertaking maintain a supplier code of conduct?
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Question Id: S2-1_05
The policy states our human rights policy commitments on value chain workers specifically addressing respect for human rights, including labor rights, of workers and the abolition of child labor, as well as other forms of forced labor. It also covers GN’s commitment to prevent child or forced labor in any of our own or our business partners’ operations. GN’s Supplier Code of Conduct, also covers all 9 IROs identified under this topic. It was updated in 2023 to align with industry best practices set out by the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and covers our engagements with all suppliers and business relationships for activities in our upstream, own operations, and downstream.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 95%
- Does the undertaking's policy concerning value chain workers explicitly address issues such as trafficking in human beings, forced or compulsory labor, and child labor? Additionally, does the undertaking have a supplier code of conduct?
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Question Id: S2-1_06
The policy states our human rights policy commitments on value chain workers specifically addressing respect for human rights, including labor rights, of workers and the abolition of child labor, as well as other forms of forced labor. It also covers GN’s commitment to prevent child or forced labor in any of our own or our business partners’ operations. GN’s Supplier Code of Conduct, also covers all 9 IROs identified under this topic. It was updated in 2023 to align with industry best practices set out by the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and covers our engagements with all suppliers and business relationships for activities in our upstream, own operations, and downstream.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 95%
- 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 detailing whether and how direct engagement with workers in the value chain, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies with insight into their situation, was conducted? Additionally, when disclosing the embedding of external-facing policies related to value chain workers, does the undertaking consider internal policies of responsible sourcing and alignment with other relevant policies, such as those addressing forced labour? Furthermore, does the summary of supplier codes of conduct indicate whether they include provisions addressing worker safety, precarious work, human trafficking, forced labour, or child labour, and confirm that these provisions are fully in line with applicable ILO standards?
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Question Id: S2-1_07
The targets have been set directly relating to value chain workers, such as aiming to reduce negative or advancing positive impacts, or to manage our material risks and opportunities. We have defined a process for setting targets relating to human rights due diligence, but we have not engaged directly with value chain workers, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies, in setting them, nor in tracking the performance, or in identifying lessons or improvement as a result of our performance. Moving into 2025, we also plan to undertake a comprehensive review of these policy areas to understand any applicable targets that can be set in relation to workers in the value chain. GN’s overall ambition in this sphere reflects our drive to strengthen our due diligence processes and efforts in tracking effectiveness to monitor our progress connected to impacts on value chain workers.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 50%
- Provide a detailed account of whether and how your company's policies concerning value chain workers align with internationally recognized instruments pertinent to value chain workers, such as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Additionally, disclose the extent to which any instances of non-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 have been reported within your upstream and downstream value chain. If applicable, include an indication of the nature of such cases.
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Question Id: S2-1_08
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.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 75%
- Provide a detailed account of whether and how your company's policies concerning value chain workers align with internationally recognized standards, specifically the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Additionally, disclose the extent to which any instances of non-compliance with these principles, the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, or the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises have been identified within your upstream and downstream value chain. If applicable, include an indication of the nature of such cases.
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Question Id: S2-1_09
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.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 70%
- Provide a detailed explanation of any significant changes to the policies adopted during the reporting year, specifically in relation to Disclosure Requirement S2-5. This should include the process for setting targets concerning the management of material negative impacts, the advancement of positive impacts, and the management of material risks and opportunities. Additionally, clarify whether and how the undertaking engaged directly with workers in the value chain, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies with insight into their situation, as outlined in Disclosure Requirement S2-1. Include any new expectations for suppliers or new approaches to due diligence and remedy.
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Question Id: S2-1_10
The targets have been set directly relating to value chain workers, such as aiming to reduce negative or advancing positive impacts, or to manage our material risks and opportunities. We have defined a process for setting targets relating to human rights due diligence, but we have not engaged directly with value chain workers, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies, in setting them, nor in tracking the performance, or in identifying lessons or improvement as a result of our performance. Moving into 2025, we also plan to undertake a comprehensive review of these policy areas to understand any applicable targets that can be set in relation to workers in the value chain. GN’s overall ambition in this sphere reflects our drive to strengthen our due diligence processes and efforts in tracking effectiveness to monitor our progress connected to impacts on value chain workers.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 65%