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Creating a better life

Creating a better life
We want to create living and working
environments for people that are healthy,
safe, secure, respectful and pay a living
wage. We want to work with business
partners who share our commitment to
providing security and safety at work and
improving local community conditions.
We believe that businesses should
support and respect the protection of
internationally proclaimed human rights
and foster secure working cultures by
enabling workers to voice their views
through the provision of appropriate
communication and grievance
procedures.
We will not work with suppliers who use
any form of forced or compulsory labour
or oppression within our supply chain.
We expect suppliers to meet all legal
obligations and understand the potential
risks to human rights in their own
operations and supply chains.
Providing secure and safe work means:
• work that is not bonded, forced or
slave labour
• the right to associate freely and bargain
collectively
• a healthy and safe workplace including
access to healthcare
• a living wage that enables workers to
meet their needs and removes financial
insecurity
• job security
• workers are not on contracts that
seek to undermine legal benefits or job
security (including redundancy and
dismissal), for example exploitative zero
hours contracts
• reasonable hours which provide
workers with a work/ life balance
• respect and equal treatment at work
including the right to maternity and
paternity leave
Improving local community conditions
means:
• protecting and promoting the rights
of local communities along the entire
supply chain
• understanding that indigenous
peoples have the right to free, prior and
informed consent as enshrined in the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIP)
• contributing to the social and
environmental sustainability of the
communities in which we operate
Our commitment
GNM:
• will ensure that we uphold these
principles in our own organisation and
will chose to work with suppliers and
partners who share these values
• will formalise our commitment to
respecting human rights, with particular
focus on modern slavery
• will buy in such a way so as to
encourage secure and fair work
• will pay all directly employed and
contracted staff the Living Wage
Our aspirations
Partners:
• foster secure and inclusive working
cultures and promote workers’ voices
in their own operations and in their
supply chain. Seek to maximise positive
benefits for the workers and the local
communities in which they operate
• will pay all directly employed and
contracted staff the Living Wage
• will make us aware when violations of
human rights are identified in their own
operations or supply chains and work to
resolve issues, rather than cutting and
running
Minimum requirements
Partners:
• will comply with all appropriate GNM
and GMG policies and procedures
• will meet all existing international
and national legislation and regulations
regarding health and safety (including
modern slavery), the ILO fundamental
principles and rights at work and the EU
Working Time Directive or equivalent 1.
• will identify high risks areas for
potential violation of human rights abuse
in their own operation and supply chain.
With particular focus on bonded, forced
or slave labour.
• will pay staff a Living Wage, will not
use exploitative zero hours contracts 2
or other contracts that undermine work
security in the provision of services to
GNM.
Our Guiding Principles

1 In the event that the requirements of these guiding principles are stricter than applicable local, national or international law, supplier will comply with these principles. However, if there is any conflict between the requirements of these principles and the
requirements of any applicable local, national or international law, supplier is to comply with the local, national or international law. Supplier will notify Guardian News & Media in writing of any such conflicts.
2 Exploitative zero hour contracts are where: employees who have consistently worked regular hours are not offered a fixed-hours contract; employers require zero-hours workers to be available on the off-chance that they’ll be needed; employees are required
to work exclusively for one firm if they are on a zero-hours contract; zero-hours workers who have their shifts cancelled at short notice are not compensated by their employer.