MARKE CREATIVE MERCHANDISE LTD

Policies described

Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery

Training described

Your whole organisation

Worker engagement and working conditions

Your suppliers Professional auditors Workers within your supply chain

Social audits

Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Third party audit arranged by your supplier Unannounced audit

Other monitoring

We engage with NGOs & encourage our suppliers to also engage with the NGOs in their own region where the information is in their own language. (SEDEX, ETI).

Demonstrated progress

We identify any areas of improvement and either generate our own corrective action plan or work with the corrective action place generated by the 3rd party audit body. We work with the supply chain to ensure that the action plan is executed and monitor and report on the improvements made within it.

Reported risks and mitigations

• Risk: Migrant workers within our supply chain, this is an area we have identified as a high risk factor for Modern Day Slavery
• Area: Within your supply chains
• Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
• Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children Other vulnerable groups
• Location: Bangladesh China India
• Mitigation: we scope all the bill of materials and work to go beyond tiers 1 and 2. We engage with your suppliers to look at their own supply chain asking each supplier to look at their tier 1 and 2 suppliers and asking their tiers to do the same. We engage with our suppliers to share best practices so other suppliers can see how issues have been remedied and work beyond audit by rewarding the suppliers for the good work they do with physical awards to encourage more engagement where we may lack leverage
• Risk: We investigate how workers have been employed and if recruitment companies have been involved. Checking contracts for language and checking where they have been signed, in-home or working country
• Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children
• Mitigation: This forms part of our pre-assessment, our audit, and also our 3rd party audits. We also look at contract workers i.e. canteen staff that do not fall within the audit. Also the workers interviews also give a good insight into the area of recruitment practices
• Risk: Inherent risk due to geographical location and the commodity, i.e. Cotton produced in China, Mica from India, both have high risk factors
• Group: Women Migrants Refugees
• Mitigation: When we are reviewing our supply in china and looking at onboarding new suppliers we run a risk assessment using the SEDEX tools, this will give us an indication of inherent risk. This being said we have found issues within the UK so our supply chain is within scope. But the risk assessment is a good starting point