Taking action Fair wages purchasing practices assessment, as well as conducting Advancing gender equality We launched a labour cost pilot to help us deliver on an internal purchasing practices self-assessment. Although women play a critical role in the garment and 13 our ACT purchasing practices commitment to ringfence footwear industry and account for 67% of our tier 1 labour costs with key suppliers. This will help us 昀椀nd Investing in new software workforce, there is little gender-speci昀椀c data available the best way to include labour as an itemised cost for To help us in our goal to gain 100% supply chain for this industry. all suppliers by: transparency and increase our e昀케ciency, we’re investing in a new ethical supply chain and mapping In 2021 we piloted a gender due diligence project. Using Increasing our understanding of how our suppliers software. In 2022 we went through a rigorous the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR™) Framework currently work. evaluation process to select the platform and we plan for Conducting Gender Responsive Due Diligence in Iden tifying any challenges in collecting that to migrate to it in 2023. Supply Chains, we worked with a key supplier and an information from suppliers, so that they can Indian advisory company, Traidcraft Services India, be addressed. Freedom of Association to collect enhanced additional workforce information, Freedom of association is a fundamental human right, and to conduct in-depth worker interviews based on And helping us to create useful and relevant supplier enabling people to come together to discuss ideas, the framework’s impact areas. We continued the pilot guidance on labour costing for all our suppliers. issues and solutions. into 2022. We will use the supplier’s feedback and pilot learnings to In 2021 we drafted guidelines to help workers become Moving forward, we’ll focus on increasing workforce implement the necessary changes. As part of the country more proactive in representing their rights. However, it data collection with our new mapping platform across work in Bangladesh, an interim dispute resolution was di昀케cult to implement our guidelines as factories all suppliers to gather more meaningful gender data. mechanism was launched. This enables workers to raise were still facing COVID-19 restrictions. We plan to test This will help us better understand the challenges women disputes in factories supplying ACT brands with them in 2023. face in factories and the data collected will help inform IndustriALL, the global union. wider policy work and our human rights due diligence. We respect our workers’ right to freedom of association In 2023 we will gather data on our purchasing practices and collective bargaining and have added this data to from our suppliers through an anonymous ACT our tier 1 factory list, found on our website.