Human Rights

Animal Welfare Responsible Sourcing Human Rights Product Innovation

Guided by our values and purpose— connecting the world to share food and care for one another—our vision is to ensure that respect for human rights is embedded in our own operations and global supply chain.

All people deserve to work in a safe environment with fair treatment and equal opportunities to succeed. At Sysco, we work diligently to uphold human rights in our own supply chain while continually seeking ways to improve them industrywide. We expect our suppliers to uphold the rights of every individual they work with, as outlined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and Sysco’s Supplier Code of Conduct (Supplier COC), which describes the legal, moral and ethical standards we expect from all suppliers throughout our international supply chain. We also follow the Core Conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Any act of human trafficking, slavery, forced labor or child labor within Sysco’s supply chain is unacceptable and, if identified, will be addressed in a manner to ensure compliance with Sysco’s established policies and procedures. In FY2022, we continued to work on updating our Supplier COC to ensure it reflects the global nature of our supply chain.

Conducting Social Responsibility Audits All Sysco Brand-approved suppliers in high-risk Latin American and Asian countries must undergo third-party audits to identify potential risks relating to wages, working hours, discrimination, worker safety, living conditions and child and forced labor. In FY2022, travel restrictions continued to prevent some on-site audits, in which cases we used a virtual audit approach. In total, we conducted 175 audits in 17 countries, including 43 initial audits of new and approved supplier facilities. Among suppliers that have participated in the program for multiple years, 37% demonstrated improvement when compared to their previous audit. Additionally, 13 facilities achieved a perfect score in FY2022, while 36% received a lower rating than the previous year. Through our audits, three locations were suspended from working with Sysco based on their audit results, with one reinstated after implementing corrective action plans and undergoing a second audit to confirm the effectiveness of their efforts.

Through annual audits and corrective actions, we have minimized human rights risks while improving working conditions in the facilities where our audits took place. Based on audit findings, we work closely with Sysco Brand suppliers and processors to develop and implement improvement plans as part of our program’s focus on continuous improvement.

GOAL

By 2025, ensure that all first-tier, high-risk suppliers agree to the Supplier Code of Conduct principles

PROGRESS: Completed 175 Sysco Brand facility audits

FY2022 Audit Results

175

audits completed for approved supplier facilities and facilities considered for approval

37%

improved their score at 64 locations

7%

achieved a perfect audit score at 13 locations