Partner Code of Conduct for Ethical Business Practices
Explore the importance of implementing a Partner Code of Conduct in businesses to ensure ethical practices, environmental responsibility, and compliance with industry standards. Learn about key recommendations and best practices for creating a robust code of conduct.
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Partner Code of Conduct RECOMMENDATIONS
Why a Partner Code of Conduct Your company is committed to treating all workers with respect and dignity, ensuring safe working conditions, and conducting environmentally responsible, ethical operations. You expect suppliers in your operations and supply chain, and their suppliers, to embrace the following social, environmental, and ethical responsibilities. By extension you should expect your partners to embrace similar social, environmental, and ethical responsibilities and to extend those standards to their suppliers and partners. Codification and communication of a Code of Conduct sets an expectation that your company intends to monitor and enforce compliance.
1. Survey of a dozen Partner Code of Conduct documents to discover most common and appropriate clauses for social, ethical and environment responsibility 2. Leverage any existing Supplier Code of Conduct as Baselineto ensure consistency with ethics and legal recourse 3. Comply with existing industry standards for Code of Conduct: RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE CODE OF CONDUCT (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS THE ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CITIZENSHIP COALITION) UNITED NATIONS GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS Approach Approach UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES (WCAG) 2.0, LEVEL AA UNITED STATES FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) 4. Supplement with additional items that are relevant to partner relationship 5. You may opt to Simplify Labor and Environmental standards to general statements for compliance 6. Include a Code for Professional Business Behavior 7. Define process for management and compliance
April 17, 2020 SURVEY OF PARTNER CODE OF CONDUCT SURVEY OF PARTNER CODE OF CONDUCT DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS
Comparable Analysis Integrity and Compliance Better Biz Bureau Code of Conduct Clause Adobe Nice doc Bosch Discord Elisai F5 Genesys Huawei IBM Juniper Nice doc Nice doc Merc Oracle Integrity and Compliance Anti-Corruption Conflicts of Interest Insider Trading Intellectual Property Confidentiality incl Data Privacy Export Compliance Fair Competition Honest and Accurate Dealings* Responsible Sourcing Truth in Advertising/Representation Gifts and Courtesies Government Clients Remarketer/ Supplier Compliance Unauthorzed Sourcing Funding of Armed Groups Damage to Reputation Professional Business Conduct No Porn * Included dealings with customers; responsible reporting of partner program compliance
Comparable Analysis Labor Standards Better Biz Bureau Code of Conduct Clause Adobe Nice doc Bosch Discord Elisai F5 Genesys Huawei IBM Juniper Nice doc Nice doc Merc Oracle Labor Standards No Forced Labor Child Labor Avoidance Lawful Employment Non-Discrimination Freedom of Association Safe Conditions Working Hours Wage and Benefits Emergency Preparedness Sanitation, Food, Housing Some Code of Conduct Documents do not detail specific Labor and Workplace Standards but include a general statement referencing compliance at a high level.
Comparable Analysis Environmental Standards Better Biz Bureau Code of Conduct Clause Adobe Bosch Discord Elisai F5 Genesys Huawei IBM Juniper Merc Oracle Environmental Standards Waste Management Packaging and Paper Conservation Energy Use Environmental Permits/Reporting Hazardous Substances Some Code of Conduct Documents do not detail specific Environmental Standards but include a general statement referencing compliance at a high level.
Process and Compliance Better Biz Bureau Code of Conduct Clause Adobe Bosch Discord Elisai F5 Genesys Huawei IBM Juniper Merc Oracle Procedures Applicability Certification Monitoring and Compliance Remediation Reduction of Incentives Termination Integrity Training Subject to Audit Expectation of Cooperation
