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Grievance Mechanism - Direct Employees
Does the company describe a confidential whistleblowing or grievance mechanism (e.g. web form, email, hotline) for direct employees?
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Grievance mechanisms or whistleblowing channels allow direct employees in the company to report any human rights or environmental issues to upper management so that action can be taken to address issues raised.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company publicly discloses if has a confidential mechanism in place to capture human rights and environmental grievances from direct employees.

Where to look for this information:
- Company code of conduct
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Grievance mechanisms
- Whistleblowing
- Ethics Line/Point
- Email Addresses
- @

Things to keep in mind:
- No points given if whistleblowing is only for reasons of financial misconduct
- The grievance mechanism itself must be published, not sufficient if they just say that they have it in place

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