2. THE CORPORATE BUSINESS COMMUNITY

Section 2.3e - Forced Labour

Principles
2.3e.P.1
The company employs workers who choose to be employed by that company. The company does not use any forced labour, whether in the forms of prison labour, indentured labour, bonded labour, slave labour or any other non-voluntary labour.

Criteria
2.3e.C.1
The company has a clearly stated policy in regard to the monitoring of the employment of people under duress. If it is discovered in such monitoring that any workers have been employed under duress, immediate steps are taken to rectify the practice and to provide for the rehabilitation of the workers involved. The company does not solve the problem by the dismissal of the workers involved.

Bench Marks
2.3e.B.1
The company adheres to International Labour Organisation Convention Number 29 and Convention Number 105 on Forced Labour.