Guidelines for Country Selection
1. BRAND IMAGE
- We will not initiate or renew contractual relationships in countries
where sourcing would have an adverse effect on our global brand image.
2. HEALTH & SAFETY
- We will not initiate or renew contractual relationships in locations
where there is evidence that company employees or representatives would
be exposed to unreasonable risk.
3. HUMAN RIGHTS
- We will not initiate or renew contractual relationships in countries
where there are pervasive violations of basic human rights.
4. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
- We will not initiate or renew contractual relationships in countries
where the legal environment creates unreasonable risk to our trademarks
or to other important commercial interest or seriously impedes our ability
to implement these guidelines.
5. POLITICAL OR SOCIAL STABILITY
- We will not initiate or renew contractual relationships in countries
where political or social turmoil unreasonably threatens our commercial
interests.
Business Partner Terms of Engagement
Our concerns include the practices of individual business partners
as well as the political and social issues in those countries where we might
consider sourcing.
We have defined business partners as contractors and suppliers
who provide labor and/or material utilized in the manufacture of our products.
1. ETHICAL STANDARDS
- We will seek to identify and utilize business partners who aspire as
indi viduals and in the conduct of their business to a set of ethical
standards not incompatible with our own.
2. HEALTH & SAFETY
- We will only utilize business partners who provide workers with a safe
and healthy work environment. Business partners who provide residential
facilities for their workers must provide safe and healthy facilities.
3. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
- We expect our business partners to be law abiding as individuals and
to comply with all legal requirements relevant to the conduct of their
busi ness.
4. EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
- We will only do business with partners whose workers are in all cases
present voluntarily, not put at risk of physical harm, fairly compensated,
allowed the right of free association and not exploited in anyway. In
addition, the following specific guidelines will be followed.
- Wages and Benefits
- We will only do business with partners who provide wages and
ben efits that comply with any applicable law or match the prevailing
manufacturing industry practices. We will also favor business
part ners who share our commitment to contribute to the betterment
of community conditions.
- Working Hours
- While permitting flexibility in scheduling, we will identify
prevailing local work hours and seek business partners who do
not exceed them except for appropriately compensated overtime.
We favor part ners who utilize no more than forty-eight-hour regularly
scheduled work weeks. We will not use contractors who, on a regularly
sched uled basis, require in excess of forty-eight-hour work weeks.
Em ployees should be allowed one day off in seven days.
- Child Labor
- Use of child labor is not permissible. "Child" is
defined as less than 16 years of age or younger than the compulsory
age to be in school. We will not utilize partners who use child
labor in any of their facili ties. We support the development
of legitimate workplace appren ticeship programs for the educational
benefits of younger people.
- Prison Labor/Forced Labor
- We will not knowingly utilize prison or forced labor in contracting
or subcontracting relationships in the manufacture of our products.
We will not knowingly utilize or purchase materials from a business
part ner utilizing prison or forced labor.
- Discrimination
- While we recognize and respect cultural differences, we believe
that workers should be employed on the basis of their ability
to do the job, rather than on the basis of personal characteristics
or beliefs. We will favor business partners who share in this
value.
- Disciplinary Practices
- We will not utilize business partners who use corporal punishment
or other forms of mental or physical coercion.
5. ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
- We will only do business with partners who share our commitment to the
environment.
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