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Purchasing policy
For L’Oréal, purchasing is not just a question of reducing costs and prices. There is a fundamental ethic which must be applied to factories, distribution warehouses and subcontractors.
For this, social audits have been set up via external agencies which audit all the group’s suppliers in terms of the following points:
• Child labour
• Slave labour
• Health and safety
• Right of association
• Non-discrimination
• Disciplinary practices
• Sexual and moral harassment
• Remuneration
• Work time
• Relationship with subcontractors and suppliers
To verify these different dimensions, there is a questionnaire made up of 10 sections of which one is entirely dedicated to non-discrimination. The issue is therefore to grade dysfunctional policies via this questionnaire.
Before carrying out the audit, suppliers must pledge to respect ethical standards. They are therefore informed that they must respect these points and that they will be subsequently audited to check their adequacy.
So that the information resulting from these audits can be passed on to all the group’s subsidiaries, there is a global database which allows this information to be shared. Since 2002, 350 audits have been carried out.
For L’Oréal, purchasing is not just a question of reducing costs and prices. There is a fundamental ethic which must be applied to factories, distribution warehouses and subcontractors.
For this, social audits have been set up via external agencies which audit all the group’s suppliers in terms of the following points:
• Child labour
• Slave labour
• Health and safety
• Right of association
• Non-discrimination
• Disciplinary practices
• Sexual and moral harassment
• Remuneration
• Work time
• Relationship with subcontractors and suppliers
To verify these different dimensions, there is a questionnaire made up of 10 sections of which one is entirely dedicated to non-discrimination. The issue is therefore to grade dysfunctional policies via this questionnaire.
Before carrying out the audit, suppliers must pledge to respect ethical standards. They are therefore informed that they must respect these points and that they will be subsequently audited to check their adequacy.
So that the information resulting from these audits can be passed on to all the group’s subsidiaries, there is a global database which allows this information to be shared. Since 2002, 350 audits have been carried out.