'Suppliers are required to provide a valid third party social compliance or ethical audit report for each factory that will be manufacturing Private Brand products. Suppliers located in extreme risk countries, as rated against Myer’s country risk profiling, require an audit every 12 months, and those of lower risk every two years.' - 8

'Whilst reviewing a renewal audit for a womenswear factory, our ethical sourcing team identified that the audit report had the same working hours and issues to a previously received audit report but with a current report date. Further, the sample of the working hours were inconsistent with the period of review and the sampling method used deviated from standard practices.

After the inconsistency was flagged by the team, a full review was conducted and later confirmed that the report provided by the factory was the prior year’s report, where the date of the report was changed to a current year by the factory' - 9 Full review conducted internally by Myer after suspicious audit

'Third party audits - findings from audits completed, including the number of corrective action plans or those considered to be high-risk or require immediate attention are used to establish potential indicators of modern slavery. Monitoring and benchmarking of suppliers assists to understand the extent our Ethical Sourcing Program is effective' - 14

'Site visits - supplier and factory onsite visits allows us to review processes and validate audit results and corrective action plans. Due to the pandemic, limited site visits were conducted in the reporting period' - 14

'Whilst we have a clear understanding of the final stage of our production, currently audits are not common for raw materials and inputs suppliers.' - 7

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“This Questionnaire is in addition to the pre-existing procurement prequalification questionnaire process, which requires service providers to provide internal policies and procedures, and independent site audit reports.”