Our commitments as a principled business
2.1 RESPECTING PEOPLE There are many laws designed to protect a company’s direct partners (guests, customers, employees and suppliers) and sometimes people in indirect contact.
Accor tracks compliance with these laws with care and attention, in particular, by ensuring that the practices of our suppliers and service providers satisfy the Group’s commitment to respecting people. In the event of a breach, Accor will implement a corrective action plan with the partner and, if the results are not satisfactory, will sever all relations with that supplier or service provider.
2.1.1 PROMOTING FUNDAMENTAL WORKERS’ RIGHTS WITHIN THE ACCOR ECOSYSTEM FORCED LABOUR
CHILD LABOUR
Forced labour is defined as work coerced by threat or intimidation.
Child labour is defined as any economic activity performed by children that deprives them of their dignity and is harmful to their normal physical and mental development.
Accor exercises meticulous scrutiny of any suppliers and service providers that may be using the labour of people coerced into working by threat or intimidation. Should this prove to be the case, Accor will implement a corrective action plan with the partner and, if the results are not satisfactory, will sever all relations with that supplier or service provider.
UNDECLARED LABOUR Undeclared labour consists of employing individuals off the payroll without registering them with national tax, social security and employment authorities, thus depriving employees of their social benefits and the government of payroll taxes and social contributions levied on their labour.
Accor pledges: ̸ to comply strictly with the minimum legal working age in each host country and never to employ a child under the age of 14 in any country; ̸ to be extremely vigilant when choosing its suppliers and service providers; ̸ to refuse to work or immediately stop working with any supplier or service provider operating in breach of child labour laws, employing children aged under the legal limit or less than 14 years old.
Accor pledges never to use clandestine, undocumented or any other form of undeclared labour in any host country and will ensure that directives are issued to this effect.
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