CPC is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in our business dealings and relationships, and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere within our business or in any of our global supply chains.
CPC strives to conduct its business in an ethical, honest, and transparent manner, ensuring our employees are provided with a healthy, safe and sustainable workplace. We do not tolerate any instances of modern slavery within the workplace.
Our modern slavery framework encompasses our strong ESG values and focus on ensuring we remain ethically and socially responsible for our practices, whilst achieving our ESG commitments and goals.
The CPC Anti-Modern Slavery Policy supports international treaties, protocols, and conventions, such as the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Declaration of Human Rights, along with relevant laws, principles and standards, such as the Modern Slavery Act 2018. CPC is committed to compliance with all relevant requirements of the Modern Slavery Act 2018, with additional consideration to global guidelines and standards.
Modern slavery practices may take a number of different forms including slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour, forced marriage, debt bondage, the worst forms of child labour, deceptive recruiting for labour or services and trafficking in persons.1 The common feature among each of these is the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.
Modern slavery within the Modern Slavery Act 2018 also extends to business conduct which involves exercising control or direction over, providing finance for, or entering into a commercial transaction involving slaves or an act of slave trading.
CPC have been reporting and submitting Modern Slavery Statements annually since FY2020 describing the actions taken each year to mitigate modern slavery risks. We will continue to take proactive steps to mitigate and address the risk of modern slavery in our supply chains and operations, and we expect all entities we engage with to also implement such measures.
[1] Refer Appendix 1 of the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018: Guidance for Reporting Entities for further guidance on types of modern slavery practices.
