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"At adidas we have a mature social compliance programme, which was founded at the end of 1990’s. Our programme was developed around a set of Workplace Standards, which incorporate core international labour rights and human rights conventions.

Forced labour, child labour and migrant labour are issues which we have dealt with in the past and which we continue to address through our monitoring of our direct supply chain (where we have formal contractual relationships) and through our Modern Slavery Outreach Programme, which we established in 2016 to increase the depth and breadth of our work on potential modern slavery risks in our upstream supply chain including Tier 2 processing facilities and Tier 3 raw material sources.

In December 2019, we published a review of our Modern Slavery Risk Assessment and disclosed our approach to assessing and addressing identified risks across three priority topics: Responsible Recruitment, Forced and Child Labour Risks in Raw Material Sourcing and Regulatory Needs and IssuesDriven Risks. See: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/adidas-modern-slavery-riskassessment-review/

We measure our suppliers through an annual social compliance Key Performance Indicator. The indicator evaluates a supplier’s compliance with our Workplace Standards, which include a prohibition against the use of any form of forced labour, child labour or human trafficking. Information on the social compliance performance rating of our key strategic suppliers in 2020 can be found in our annual report. Suppliers are also expected to apply appropriate due diligence measures to their subordinate subcontracting relationships to prevent and mitigate human and labour rights issues, including forced labour."

The Modern Slavery Outreach Programme is a risk identification tool.  However, the company states:

"Workplace Standards, which include a prohibition against the use of any form of forced labour, child labour or human trafficking" (p. 2). No indication that these apply to Tier 2 suppliers. Therefore, I have deleted the selected options of Beyond Tier 1. 

The company provides a link to its policies which contain the information for this metric.