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Grievance Reporting - Supply Chain Workers
Does the company disclose data about the number of reported violations or grievances from supply chain workers that are filed, addressed and resolved?
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About the data

Confidential grievance mechanisms or whistleblowing channels enable workers in the supply chain to report any human rights or environmental issues directly to the company so that action can be taken to address issues raised. Disclosing data findings demonstrates that a company is taking active steps to implement this grievance mechanism and resolve any grievances filed.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company ensures human rights and environmental grievances from workers within their supply chain are captured and addressed. Start by looking for public disclosure detailing how the company captures and addresses human rights and environmental grievances from employees in the supply chain.

Please note: Reports published after January 18

Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- In Modern Slavery Statement or California Transparency Act disclosure
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Grievance mechanisms
- Whistleblowing
- Ethics Line/Point
- Email Addresses
- @

Things to keep in mind:
- No points given if whistleblowing is only for reasons of financial misconduct
- The company should receive the point for discloses data about the grievances if they disclose only the number of grievances filed. The company should not receive the point if they disclose the number of grievances address or resolved without disclosing the number of grievances made in the first place. Best practice is when companies disclose all three.

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