We ensure the respect of human rights, including labour rights, across our value chain by conducting regular supplier assessments. These assessments evaluate labour conditions and the implementation of management systems by our suppliers to safeguard workers’ rights. Our engagement is designed to detect, prevent, and address impacts and risks related to human rights violations, with a focus on ensuring fair treatment, safe working environments, and compliance with international labour standards. We engage with value chain workers during our assessments to gather insights into their working conditions. We also collaborate with suppliers to enhance transparency and accountability, ensuring that workers’ voices are heard, and their concerns are addressed.

As part of our due diligence process, we engage directly with workers or, where needed, through credible proxies, such as labour unions with insight into local working conditions. These proxies help provide important insights into the workers’ situations and help ensure our efforts are aligned with their needs. This engagement involves regular dialogues and consultations to understand their concerns.

To ensure our decisions and activities are informed by the perspectives of value chain workers, we engage proactively with them and their representatives, including trade unions. The outcome of this engagement directly informs our strategies for identifying, assessing, and addressing actual and potential impacts on workers. Through this collaborative process, we work to uphold fair labour practices and to foster safe, dignified, and inclusive work environments across our operations and partnerships. Engagement occurs as part of our due diligence process, involving regular dialogues and consultations.

The senior operational responsibility for overseeing these engagements rests with our Chief Procurement Officer, ensuring that results are integrated into our broader due diligence processes. We continuously work to improve our approach and, ultimately, value chain worker conditions.

While we do not currently have global framework agreements with global union federations, we prioritise collective worker representation wherever possible to promote open communication and advocate for fair conditions across our value chain.

To measure the effectiveness of our engagements, we assess outcomes of our assessments on an ongoing basis, including any agreements or remedial actions implemented as a result. We continuously work to improve our approach and, ultimately, value chain worker conditions.

This approach also gives us an understanding and insights into perspectives of the workers who may be particularly vulnerable, especially migrant workers.

We are working to establish a clear process that will involve engaging directly with value chain workers, their representatives, or credible proxies. In the meantime, we are focused on gathering data and assessing current practices to ensure that future targets are effective and aligned with stakeholder needs.

We are working to establish a clear process that will involve engaging directly with value chain workers, their representatives, or credible proxies. In the meantime, we are focused on gathering data and assessing current practices to ensure that future targets are effective and aligned with stakeholder needs.