Human rights charter

To carry out its activities, Aristide employs 35 people and calls on partners, suppliers and subcontractors whose activities are likely to have an impact on fundamental workers’ rights. Therefore, in addition to the measures in place for its own employees, Aristide intends to exercise reasonable vigilance with regard to the employees of its suppliers and subcontractors, particularly on the following issues:

• Health and safety: Provision of appropriate equipment, regular safety training for employees and monitoring of accidents and illnesses;
• Remuneration: Compliance with local legislation on minimum wage, payment of a wage corresponding to the number of hours actually worked, equal pay and regular and timely payment of wages;
• Working hours and paid leave: Compliance with local legislation on overtime pay, daily breaks, weekly rest days, parental leave;
• Employee representation: Compliance with national legislation on freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. Guarantee of non-discrimination of workers involved in such representative structures; – all forms of discrimination (cf. Charter for Diversity and Inclusion);
• Forced labor and employment of under-age workers: Compliance with local legislation on minimum age for employment, prohibition of the hiring of children under the age of 15, prohibition of the hiring of young people under the age of 18 for any type of so-called hazardous work, and the signing of an employment contract specifying the elements of the job.

The company strives to create an environment that guarantees equal opportunities for all.

• All company decisions concerning hiring, assignment, remuneration, promotion, training, discipline, retirement and termination of the employment relationship are based solely on objective factors, and are not related to gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, race, color, creed, caste, language, mental or physical disability, membership of an organization, opinion, state of health, marital status, sexual orientation, birth, or civic, social or political characteristics of the employee.
• Hiring, promotion and training decisions are based on job descriptions, professional profiles, experience and skills.

By adopting this charter, Aristide is committing itself to an approach of progress that consists of putting in place all reasonable and appropriate means to optimize its positive impact on human rights, throughout its value chain. As such, Aristide is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations, and in particular the following targets, which aim by 2030 to:

• “;ensure that all men and women, especially the poor and vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources and access to basic services, property, control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources…” (SDG 1.4)
• “Take immediate and effective measures to abolish forced labor, end modern slavery and
  human trafficking, prohibit and eliminate the worst forms of child labor, including the recruitment and use of child soldiers and, by 2025, end child labor in all its forms”(SDG 8.7)
• “Defend workers' rights, promote workplace safety and ensure the protection of all workers, including migrants, especially women, and those in precarious employment.” (SDG 8.8)
• “Empower all people and promote their social, economic and political integration, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, origins, religion or economic or other status.” (ODD 10.2).