Question: Has the company reviewed business KPIs to ensure they are not increasing risk of modern slavery? (E.g. expansion to production countries that have a lot of migrant workers)
Answer:
No
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Walk Free
2020
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No mention of such KPI's. Manali Rana[https://wikirate.org/Manali_Rana].....2022-05-09 10:45:51 UTC

Lucia Ixtacuy.....2022-06-24 12:29:11 UTC

pg. 7 Even as we work to advance respect for all rights, we place special emphasis on these salient issues, and we prioritize actions that reach the most vulnerable people. A variety of factors may increase a worker’s vulnerability to human rights risks, such as temporary or seasonal work status, lack of legal protections, poor enforcement of legal protections, or problematic laws that inhibit respect for rights. Migrant workers, women and children are particularly vulnerable to human rights risks. Appropriate remediation approaches may vary based on the issues present.

pg. 15

Mars and other companies across the industry are designing approaches to address these forced labor risks and to support governments in their response, with technical input from Verité and others. This work includes forced labor training by third party experts – including awareness raising materials for suppliers, guidance on contracting, and integration of forced labor risk indicators into existing child labor monitoring systems.

pg. 17

In 2016, we launched our first Thai Fish Supply Chain Human Rights Action Plan which includes key performance indicators and uses the CARE Framework. As we advance this work, the sector continues to face complex challenges. Nonetheless, we are making progress.

pg. 21

In 2020, we continued to build a key performance indicator framework that helps us assess

effectiveness of our human rights programming. Our framework aims to capture changes in management systems, changes in key human rights risks and changes in worker voice over time, across priority supplier and origin sites. We hired a new data analytics lead to support our overall sustainability metrics and evaluation work, including our systems to track and measure across human rights programs.

Sascha.....2022-07-04 01:40:03 UTC

pg. 5 "To govern the global application and implementation of our policies, our Human Rights Steering Committee meets regularly to review our progress, challenges and opportunities. Executive oversight supports this governance and continued assessment of plans and performance. Our Board of Directors is informed annually of our human rights plans and performance. Our policies include a focus on the elimination of forced labor as a critical component of our overall human rights approach."

Sascha.....2022-07-04 01:48:11 UTC