How do the perspectives of value chain workers inform your decisions and actions for managing their actual and potential impacts? In your response, please explain: • Whether engagement occurs directly with value chain workers, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies; • At what stages, through what types, and how frequently such engagement takes place; • Which function and most senior role is responsible for ensuring this engagement and integrating its outcomes; • Any Global Framework Agreements or similar arrangements with global union federations that help capture these perspectives; and • How you assess the effectiveness of your engagement, including any resulting agreements or outcomes.
CSRD
This indicator requires you to disclose whether and how the perspectives of value chain workers inform your decisions or activities aimed at managing actual and potential impacts on them. Your disclosure should include:
Engagement Approach:
Explain whether engagement occurs:
Directly with value chain workers or their legitimate representatives.
Through credible proxies with insight into their situation.
Engagement Stages and Frequency:
Specify:
At which stage(s) engagement occurs (e.g., risk assessment, policy development, monitoring).
Type of engagement (e.g., surveys, consultations, direct dialogue, third-party audits).
Frequency of engagement (e.g., ongoing, periodic, ad hoc).
Operational Responsibility:
Identify the function and most senior role within the organization responsible for ensuring engagement with value chain workers and integrating their input into decision-making.
Global Framework Agreements (if applicable):
Disclose whether your organization has Global Framework Agreements or agreements with global union federations regarding the respect of human rights for value chain workers, including:
Their right to bargain collectively.
How the agreement helps gain insight into workers’ perspectives.
Effectiveness Assessment (if applicable):
Explain how you assess the effectiveness of engagement with value chain workers, including:
Whether and how outcomes or agreements have resulted from engagement.
Any mechanisms in place to evaluate the impact of engagement efforts.
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