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Grievance Reporting - Direct Employees
Does the company disclose the number of reported violations or grievances from direct employees that are filed, addressed and resolved?
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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. Disclosing data findings demonstrates that a company is taking active steps to implement this grievance mechanism and resolve any grievances filed.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company publicly discloses the number of violations or grievances from direct empolyees that were filed, addressed and resolved. Start by looking for a public disclosure detailing how the company captures and addresses 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 company should receive the point for discloses data about the grievances if they disclose the number of grievances filed. The company should not receive the point if they only disclose the number of grievances address or resolved without disclosing the number of grievances made in the first place. Best practice is when companies disclose all three.

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