'Hermes Australia does not tolerate modern slavery or forced labour either within its business itself or within its supply chain. Hermes Australia expects its supply chain (whether direct suppliers or those that directly or indirectly supply its direct suppliers) to share the same values' P.1

'Relevant policies and documents

Hermes Australia requires its third-party suppliers to provide specific undertakings prior to onboarding relating to the absence of modern slavery practices and their compliance with national and international ethical, social and environmental laws, regulations and policies. Such undertakings include, but are not limited to:

The absence of forced labour:

The adequate remuneration for staff in line with local laws and industry standards;

Allowing the Hermes Group control over the choice of, or at best, providing it with knowledge of, the supplier’s subcontractors, if any; and

The acceptance to be audited by Hermes Australia and/or any entity of the Hermes Group and complete any questionnaires in this respect in good faith, and that the supplier shall resolve as soon as possible any issue highlighted during any audit' P.2

'Hermes Australia takes a ‘risk-based’ approach in the suppler engagement process and recognizes that there is a risk for modern slavery within every industry. It has reviewed its business and its supply chains accordingly to mitigate such risk to the best of its ability. Neither Hermes Australia nor, to the best of Hermes Australia’s knowledge, any player in its supply chain, makes use of modern slavery. Hermes Australia has, moreover, taken the following steps to manage any risk that its supply chain may use modern slavery:'

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'Systematically assess new suppliers as part of a robust onboarding process and only engage suppliers that uphold the same values as Hermes Australia, especially with respect to ethics, human rights and diversity, in which more information can be found on all Hermes websites;

All suppliers are expected to provide the specific undertakings as previously mentioned on social, environmental and ethical policies and comply with Hermes Australia’s code of conduct in this vein and provided with supplier handbooks which contains a dedicated section on human rights issues;

Contractural obligations are imposed on suppliers to reinforce their compliance with Hermes Australia’s code of conduct and provide warranties that the suppliers do not use modern slavery;

Ensure that Hermes Australia maintains a right to conduct audits to:

Inspect the supplier’s facilities, records and practices, to have access to their personnel and to audit their business for the purposes of ensuring that they comply with these obligations and that there is no use of modern slavery; and

Request that the supplier completes any questionnaires provided, including regarding the use of modern slavery and steps they have taken to ensure it is not used by them or their supply chain' P.3