Paramount Packaging (UK) Ltd
Providing Flexible Packaging Solutions for 20 years
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Modern Slavery
Paramount Packaging are committed to conducting business responsibly, and have a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of modern slavery across our operations and supply chains.
Our Policies and Values
We have a suite of internal and external policies that set out our expectations and requirements. We monitor performance and take appropriate action where we believe suppliers, partners, or colleagues do not meet our high standards.
Our Code
sets out our minimum expectations for all those we work with and applies to all employees, subsidiaries, affiliate companies, agency staff and consultants. It represents a high-level summary of key areas of our policies and standards, providing a framework to ensure we do the right thing; our commitments include respecting human rights and requiring everyone we work with to operate responsibly.•
Sourcing
Responsible Sourcing Policy: covers suppliers that operate on our behalf and sets out our requirements that suppliers will respect human rights, take appropriate steps to ensure modern slavery is not in their supply chains, will not use child labour or forced labour in any form, and will not contribute directly or indirectly to human rights abuses. Contractual arrangements with our suppliers ensure they share our commitment to meeting these requirements.
Managing Our People
An internal policy, applicable to all our people, which sets out the standards of recruitment that the categorized, as well as contractors, agents and outsourced arrangements, should adhere to. Commitments include conducting appropriate checks before people join to ensure they can legally work for us.
Speak Up
our in-house system for employees, suppliers and business partners to raise concerns confidentially in relation to improper, unethical or illegal practices. We’re committed to dealing with all Speak Up reports and ensure those who raise concerns are protected from retaliation. We have a common set of global values across the business, which are essential to our success: Care, Delivery Collaboration, Agility and Courage. Our values were developed through conversations with our people and are lived in everything we do.
Due Diligence Processes
Risk Rate New Suppliers
We risk rate new suppliers using a country and sector risk segmentation tool that considers the product or service being offered and any slavery risk. Suppliers that are identified as high risk are subject to enhanced risk assessment which evaluates their sustainability standards, including labour and workers’ rights.
Recruitment & Fair Pay
In Europe our people are subject to various HR processes to ensure they have the right to work.
Where we use sub-contractors, this is sourced via our service partner, who is subject to their own obligations under the Modern Slavery Act.
Outside of the UK, we comply with local rules and regulations to ensure that our employees have the right to work in these countries and, where permissible by local laws, apply the same standards as in the UK. We also ensure that workers are rewarded fairly. This includes paying at least the Living Wage and upholding equal pay, as well as reducing any ethnicity and gender pay gaps. We monitor and publish our performance.
Training and Awareness
Our training, which is accompanied by a self-certification, reminds our people to act with integrity and do the right thing, including respecting and upholding human rights.
N Morrish
Managing Director
Paramount Packaging (UK) Ltd