Example in Action: Primark's Code of Conduct

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Here is a sample of code of conduct provisions on forced labor and child labor, taken from the Primark Code of Conduct:
- Employment is freely chosen
- All workers have the right to join or form trade unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively.
- Employers will adopt an open attitude towards the activities of trade unions and their organizational activities.
- Workers' representatives must not be discriminated against and must have access to carry out their representative functions in the workplace.
- Where the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is restricted under law, Employers will facilitate, and must not hinder, the development of parallel means for independent and free association and collective bargaining.
- Individuals who represent workers should do so willingly, and be freely and transparently elected, without influence form any other party.
- Child labor must not be used
- There must be no recruitment or employment of child labor.
- In any given country, the minimum working age, as well as rules regarding the employment of a Young Worker, will be defined by the conventions of the ILO or national/regional law, whichever affords greater protection to the individual. For clarity, Young Worker in this context refers to an individual above the legal working age but before their 18th birthday.
- Companies must have policies and programs which prevent the recruitment and employment of child labor.
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to address child labor and forced labor.
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