Question: Does the brand address, or have a code, that addresses freedom of association in its supply chain?
Answer:
Yes, and the brand provides evidence of compliance
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Project JUST Research Group
Kering
2019
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updated almost 3 years ago by Singh Anjali

The company provides evidence of compliance for the same.

 

Code of ethics, pg. 17

"Kering and its Houses, therefore, require their suppliers to commit themselves to the following basic principles which, taken as a whole, constitute the Kering Group Suppliers’ Charter:

To respect employees’ directly applicable right of representation and free speech, freedom of association and collective wage bargaining;"

 

URD 2019, pg. 90

"supplier database: All Kering’s Houses have access to a common supplier database. At the end of 2019, this database listed 4,243 suppliers; for 2019, the supply chain audit and security teams carried out a total of 3,441 audits."

 

pg. 91

"Kering group supply chains

-Human rights and fundamental freedoms

Indicators

Number of third-party due diligence procedures in 2019: more than 60,000(1)

Supplier compliance monitoring in 2019:

89% of suppliers audited wholly or partially compliant

-Individual health and safety

Indicators

Supplier compliance monitoring in 2019:

89% of suppliers audited wholly or partially compliant

-Environment

Indicators

Environmental Profit & Loss account (EP&L) – Tiers 1 to 4: €455.6m

11.7% reduction in EP&L intensity from 2015 to 2018 (Tiers 1 to 4)

15.6% reduction in carbon intensity from 2015 to 2018(Tiers 1 to 4)

(greenhouse gas emissions/gross margin)

Measurement and regulation of carbon footprint,

EP&L 2018 results published in 2019: greenhouse gases account for 32% of supply chain impacts (Tiers 1 to 4)"

Singh Anjali.....2021-06-19 09:13:35 UTC