Hanesbrands Global Supplier Standards

"Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining: Suppliers will recognize and respect the right of employees to exercise their right of freedom association. Similarly, Suppliers will recognize and respect the rights of their employees to choose or not choose collective bargaining."

Hanesbrands CHRB 2019, pg. 15

"Freedom of association and collective bargaining (in the supply chain)

The individual elements of the assessment are met or not as follows:

Score 1

• Met: FoA & CB rules in codes or contracts: The Company's Global Standards for Suppliers states that 'suppliers will respect the right of employees to exercise their lawful right of free association. Similarly, suppliers will recognize the lawful rights of their employees to choose or not choose collective bargaining representation'. Moreover, the Responses to Corporate Human Rights Benchmark document states that the Company 'fully respect the right of workers to freely associate and collectively bargain and insist on that in our own operations and the operations of our suppliers.' [Global Standards for Suppliers, 03/05/2018 & Submission to the CHRB Disclosure Platform: 'Response to CHRB', 28/03/2018: businesshumanrights.org]

• Met: How working with suppliers on FoA and CB: The Company states in the Responses to Corporate Human Rights Benchmark document 'We have numerous unions in our facilities and work with them frequently through the collective bargaining process. We audit against this issue heavily in our scorecard auditing process and have on a number of occasions required reinstatement of terminated employees (with back pay) when we have identified cases where employees have been terminated for exercising those rights. As for trending, this remains an issue of concern for us in our supply base. We have dealt with cases just in the last year where we have required reinstatement of affected employees. We audit against the issue closely and interview workers on this point directly when conducting our audits. We make it very clear to suppliers what our expectations are'. [Submission to the CHRB Disclosure Platform: 'Response to CHRB', 28/03/2018: businesshumanrights.org]

Score 2

• Met: Both requirements under score 1 met

• Not met: Provide analysis of trends in progress made: There is no clear analysis of trends in progress made amongst suppliers. Although the Company states that they are addressing this as a concern (see above), analysis and reporting on progressions are not apparent. [Submission to the CHRB Disclosure Platform: 'Response to CHRB', 28/03/2018: business-humanrights.org]"