All Decent work articles – Page 4
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Engagement guide
Expectation 4 for food and beverage companies: sourcing and supplier relationships
Companies should evaluate suppliers for labour performance, including on minimum labour compliance criteria and on suppliers’ capacity to manage compliance of their own suppliers.
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Engagement guide
Expectation 5 for food and beverage companies: collaboration on systemic issues
To address systemic issues, companies should collaborate with external stakeholders such as trade unions, civil society organisations, human rights experts, governments, and sector peers.
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Engagement guideExpectation 6 for food and beverage companies: monitoring and corrective action
Companies should regularly assess the labour performance of at least new and existing direct suppliers, and ensure that their direct suppliers assess and monitor their sub-suppliers. Companies should report on the results of these assessments. They should request corrective action plans from non-conforming direct suppliers and sub-suppliers, and, as a ...
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Engagement guide
Expectation 7 for food and beverage companies: target setting and disclosure
In each of the above areas, companies should report regularly and publicly on policies and processes as well as on performance against measureable and time-bound targets. We encourage a combination of quantitative reporting, such as the G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, and qualitative reporting, such as the UN Guiding Principles Reporting ...
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Engagement guide
Why engage on agricultural supply chain labour practices?
Improving supply chain labour standards can help mitigate operational, legal/regulatory and reputational risks, as well as present opportunities to benefit from innovative suppliers, access to more markets and contracts, loyal customers, productive/committed employees and secure supplier relationships.
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Engagement guide
How to engage with agricultural supply chain companies
The following engagement recommendations are based on findings from the engagement, as well as findings from other stakeholders and sources.
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Engagement guideFrom poor working conditions to forced labour - what's hidden in your portfolio?
Recent legislation such as the UK Modern Slavery Act, along with prominent examples of labour breaches in agricultural supply chains - which include child labour in the cocoa industry or forced labour in the seafood industry – are exposing food and beverage companies to heightened operational, regulatory and reputational risks.
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Engagement guideHow to engage retailers on employee relations
Happy employees are good for business: highly engaged employees tend to stay longer, and are more likely to be productive and provide good customer service.
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Engagement guide
Three recommendations for future engagement with retailers
Although 22 of the 27 companies (81%) engaged improved their reporting, there remains significant scope for further improvement in both reporting and performance.
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Engagement guide
How to engage retailers on key aspects of employee relations
Employee turnover not only provides an indication of employee retention, but also employee satisfaction as well as recruitment and training costs for new employees.
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Engagement guide
How to engage retailers on employee relations: getting started
To improve the level of reporting and performance on employee relations, suggestions on how investors can engage retailers on the topic are provided below.
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Engagement guideHuman rights and the extractive industry: why engage, who to engage, how to engage
Extractive companies are among those companies that have the most daily impact on our lives. They have an impact on their workers, the communities located near their operations, and the people living in the operating country. They use countries’ natural resources, which ultimately belong to their citizens, and therefore need ...
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Technical guideResponsible investment in farmland
Farmland offers a stable long-term investment with the benefits of diversification, inflation protection and potential for attractive returns, but there are significant challenges, including water, soil health, biodiversity, toxics and land rights.
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