FAMILY DOLLAR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY社会责任政策

Certification of Our Business Partners 我们商业伙伴的认证

In order to successfully implement and follow our Code, we understand that building strong relationships with our internal business teams and our Business Partners is critical. One key component to building strong Business Partners’ relationships is to select the best Business Partners. We begin with an evaluation of each factory used by our Business Partners and only certify those factories that can support the standards in our Code. We use industry standards and certified third-party experts to insure our certification process meets industry standards. Once a factory has been certified, we begin to build a strong relationship with our Business Partners that includes maintaining a safe, healthy and fair environment in all factories where product is produced.

Audits and Remediation 审核和整改

All of our Business Partners must comply with our Quality & Compliance program which includes our social compliance commitments. In order to assure consistent and complete compliance, factory audits are a key component of our practices. Regular and random audits are conducted to verify that our Business Partners are complying with our Code in order to strengthen working conditions and labor practices in factories. We contract with accredited, internationally recognized third party audit providers to perform these audits using industry standards and practices.

Once a factory is audited, an assessment rating is assigned. The assessment rating is based on a number of factors and a corrective action plan is developed as necessary. Depending on the nature and severity of the findings, we determine how to address the factory and whether we should consider terminating the relationship if corrective action is not sufficient. In general, we prefer to assist our Business Partners in addressing concerns rather than ending our relationship. If we can continue the relationship while improving upon the working conditions of the factories and its workers, we can prevent future issues for those who depend upon the factories for employment. By taking these steps, we seek to insure that we source the best products possible for our customers while improving the working conditions of those working in the factories abroad.

As good a Business Partner, we seek to enhance our efforts toward compliance by providing a training program for our Business Partners. The training is updated and communicated regularly through various means, including Business Partner summits webinars, global personnel office training sessions, and through our third party business partners. The training program sets forth our expectations as it relates to our social responsibility standards. We also provide training to our internal teams, both domestically and abroad, to insure our social responsibility standards are understood, supported and upheld by all team members.

Other programs其他项目

As part of our overall development of our global sourcing efforts and in recognition of the fact that resources abroad are pertinent to our efforts to insure safe and healthy working conditions and protect the rights of the workers in the factories of our Business Partners, we have focused on placing more resources in the locations.