B.J.leathers Anti Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy
Policy Statement
This policy applies to all persons working for B.J.Leathers or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, secondary workers, volunteers, contractors and suppliers
B.J.Leathers Ltd strictly prohibits the use of modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations and supply chain. We have and will continue to be committed to implementing systems and controls aimed at ensuring that modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our organisation or in our supply chains. we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.
Modern Slavery is a term used to encompass slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour, bonded and child labour and human trafficking. Human trafficking is where a person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person with a view to that person being exploited. Modern Slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights.
Our Commitments
As a company we expect everyone working with us or on our behalf to support and uphold the following measures to safeguard against modern slavery
* We have a zero tolerance approach to modern slavery in our organisation and our supply chains
*The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our organisation or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for us or on our behalf. Workers must not engage in, facilitate or fail to report any activity that might lead to or suggest a breach in this policy.
* We are committed to engaging with our stakeholders and suppliers to address the risk of modern slavery in our operations and supply chain.
* We take a risk based approach to our contracting processes and keep them under review. We assess whether the circumstances warrant the inclusion of specific prohibitions against the use of modern slavery and trafficked labour in our contracts with third parties. Using our risk based approach we will also assess the merits of writing to suppliers requiring them to comply with our code of conduct, which sets out the minimum standards required to combat modern slavery and trafficking.
* Consistent with our risk based approach we may require, employment or recruitment agencies or other third parties supplying workers to our organisation to confirm their compliance with our code. Suppliers engaging workers through third parties to obtain that third parties agreement to adhere to the code.
* As part of our ongoing risk assessment and due diligence processes we will consider whether circumstances warrant us carrying out audits of suppliers for their compliance with the code of conduct.
* If we find that individuals or organisations working on our behalf have breached this policy we will ensure that we take appropriate action, this may range from considering the possibility of breaches being remediated and whether that might represent the best outcome for those individuals impacted by the breach to terminating such relationships.