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ICAR The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) harnesses the collective power of progressive organizations to push governments to create and enforce rules over corporations that promote human rights and reduce inequality.
Modern Slavery Act Statement: The company has accounts for a small company, which indicate that it falls below the threshold for the Modern Slavery Act supply chain reporting requirement.
The company states that its U.K. workwear laundries achieved accreditation to ISO 9001 and that its healthcare sites are certified to, or working towards, the EN14065 (Standard on bio-contamination control).
Modern Slavery Act Statement: The Group’s two-page statement says that there are over thirty countries in its supply chain (but none are named) and over 100 own brand manufacturing facilities based in (unnamed) emerging markets.
The companies studied in the report were awarded significantly-sized contracts to supply apparel to public authorities, but in many instances information on their corporate structures and supply chains is not available on their website, and most had made few, if any, meaningful human rights or ethical commitments publicly.
Require all central government departments and public bodies with a turnover of more than £36 million to publish an annual slavery human trafficking.
