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page 6- A number of our businesses have key
performance indicators (KPIs) in place in relation to labour
standards and they report on these on a regular basis.
The work carried out by some of our businesses in this area
includes:
• internal staff and supplier training, and awareness of forced
and trafficked labour issues;
• actions taken as part of collaborative initiatives to address
modern slavery;
• our policies relating to forced and trafficked labour, and advocacy
efforts we have undertaken to draw awareness to or address
these risks;
• Code of Conduct non-compliances relating to employment being
freely chosen;
• registered grievances in our supply chain relating to any form
of forced labour; and
• investigative and remedial actions taken in response to any
perceived instance of forced labour in our supply chain.
pg. 4
“AB Agri trained nearly 200 transport managers, commercial teams and delivery drivers (who visit more than 1,000 farms across the UK every year) to recognise the signs of modern slavery and forced labour.”
“AB Sugar created online training to raise awareness of the potential for modern slavery in its supply chain and to provide staff with advice on how to act on concerns, such as contacting independent whistleblowing hotlines. It is currently exploring how the online training can be shared with its suppliers. So far, more than 75% of those employees invited have completed the online training.”
Pg. 5
“Primark is looking at ways it can support its suppliers to implement good grievance procedures. Primark is starting to scale up the China CompanyIQ worker app programme with MicroBenefits, following a successful Phase 1 pilot in 2018.
The Phase 1 pilot, which engaged with 6,000 workers across ten factories, indicated improved transparency of human resources practice, better communication between management and workers, and enhanced worker awareness of rights.
Since 2020, Phase 2 of the project has now engaged with more than 2,000 workers across eleven factories.”