Question: Does the company’s statement identify specific geographic regions (e.g. Indonesia), industries (e.g. agriculture), resources (e.g. Palm Oil) or types of workforce (e.g. migrant workers) where the risk of modern slavery is the greatest?"
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Geographic,
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Issues have been identified in overtime conditions for young workers (Page 5). However, no specific geographic region has been mentioned outside of stating that this issue was revealed in a self assessment of 'Japan and other overseas manufacturing companies and sites'.

Isabella Summerer.....2024-02-27 19:36:44 UTC

The report has also identified 'labour conditions for migrant workers' as a particular issue.

Isabella Summerer.....2024-02-27 19:39:40 UTC

I would consider the comments above relevant for company's findings around compliance breaches, these are not identification of potential risks. On page 3 it is mentioned that "Panasonic having a global manufacturing, distribution and supply chain operations, acknowledges that it is exposed to various modern slavery risks, including human rights and labour related issues", but it does not specifies which issues it is potentially exposed too, or where and who. Even though they do share findings from further assessments, their description of modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chain is extremely vague, I would answer this question as "no".

Julia Noronha.....2024-02-29 04:19:42 UTC

p.4

"Overall there is a likely low risk of modern slavery occurring within the supply chain and operations within Australia".

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p.5

For the current year Panasonic conducted further self assessments of selected Japan and other overseas manufacturing companies and sites (for a total of 127 companies and sites) within the Group. As a result of the assessment, there were 96 issues identified across 38 companies which included issues such as inadequacies in contracts between companies and recruitment agencies for employing foreign workers, hiring and promotion processes which may be discriminatory and overtime conditions for young workers.

Manali Rana.....2024-03-07 05:17:26 UTC