Walk Free+MSA policy (revised)+Hitachi Ltd.+2016

Question: Does the company’s statement detail one or more specific, organisational policies or actions to combat slavery in their direct (tier 1) and/or in-direct (beyond tier 1) supply chain?

Answer:

Suppliers comply with laws and company’s policies (beyond tier 1),
Prohibit use of forced labour (direct / tier 1),
Code of conduct or supplier code includes clauses on slavery and human trafficking (direct / tier 1),
Prohibit charging of recruitment fees to employee (beyond tier 1),
Prohibit use of child labour (direct / tier 1),
Suppliers protect migrant workers (direct / tier 1),
Suppliers respect labour rights (wages / freedom of association etc) (direct / tier 1)

Wikirate ID: 3192750

Metric Designer: Walk Free

Metric Title: MSA policy (revised)

Company: Hitachi Ltd.

Year: 2016

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Ethan McCutchen

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In the first source, Hitachi Statement in Accordance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 29th August 2017, it is stated in point 3 that they:

"have revised “The Hitachi Group Supply Chain CSR Deployment Guidebook” in January 2017 with reference to the EICC Code of Conduct version 5.1. Its new title is “Hitachi Group CSR Procurement Guideline (the 3rd edition)”. It will be distributed to tier 1 suppliers of Hitachi, Ltd. and its subsidiaries."

The second source is the mentioned document. The "Hitachi Group CSR Procurement Guideline (the 3rd edition)" covers topics regarding Labour under point 7 starting on page 10 of the document. This point covers all given answers.

Annette Schwiebert.....2017-11-06 09:27:29 UTC