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?"
Answer:
Geographic,
Industry,
Resource/products and services,
Workforce
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2022
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updated over 1 year ago by Manali Rana

pg. 3

"Prioritise the rollout of strategies in extreme risk areas including seafood, cotton and at supplier sites in Malaysia"

pg. 7

"Suppliers of high-risk services (Including but not limited to cleaning, trolley collecting, security and logistics)"

pg. 8

"Malaysia forced labour risk metrics are now at extreme risk levels."

"Despite small improvements in EiQ’s forced labour index, Thailand and Vietnam saw an overall increase in risk due to a decline in business integrity and transparency"

"India and Bangladesh’s overall forced labour risk remains high, and the past year saw a sharp increase in risks related to domestic migrant workers, driven by ongoing supply chain volatility of COVID."

pg. 9

"While we acknowledge the risks may be greater in inherently higher risk jurisdictions, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand and Bangladesh, our 427 team members across these countries are professional team members."

pg. 11

"Due to these factors, we recognise that workers engaged as contractors or labour hire casuals are more vulnerable to modern slavery risks, and we are cognisant that we must implement proportionate controls to mitigate the risk of actual harm occurring."

pg. 16

"We recognise that the horticulture sector has an inherently higher risk of labour exploitation due to its seasonal nature and reliance on temporary and migrant workers."

"We have taken a risk-based approach to prioritise audit requests in higher risk categories based on commodity and type of harvest, geography (including hotspot regions and regulatory oversight), seasonality and suspected or known red flag sites. These categories are berries, cherries, grapes, stone fruit, citrus, tomatoes, cucumber and brassica."

pg. 19

"Firstly, we refined the findings of the F20 forced labour risk assessment by overlaying volume and sales data to determine a combined risk and leverage score. Rice, dried fruit, nuts, coconut, cocoa, coffee and palm oil were identified as the highest priorities."

pg. 21

"We know that some labour migration corridors present higher risks to migrant workers than others, and these have been prioritised for proactive due diligence and assessment against the Addendum Requirements."

Manali Rana.....2022-12-29 10:44:18 UTC