WARNACO Business Partner Terms of Engagement and
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 individuals 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 business.
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
benefits that comply with any applicable law or match the
prevailing manufacturing industry practices. We will also favor
business partners 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 partners who utilize no more than forty-eight-hour regularly
scheduled work weeks. We will not use contractors who, on a
regularly scheduled basis, require in excess of forty-eight-hour
work weeks. Employees 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 facilities. We support the development of legitimate
workplace apprenticeship 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 partner 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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