Modern Slavery

The Company acknowledges that modern day slavery still exists and therefore has responsibilities as an employer to ensure modern slavery or human trafficking practices do not exist in our working practices or within supply chains.

The Company operates a policy to identify and mitigate risk in the following ways (but not limited to):

• Alerting all staff to potential risks in our business and in our wider supply chain which in doing so we hope will avoid such practices taking place.
• Investigating and vetting our supply chains policies, contracts, contractors etc.
• Continually auditing and reviewing our working practices.
• Ensuring all employees are paid at least the minimum wage
• Ensuring all employees have the right to work in the UK.
• By encouraging the reporting of any concerns and protecting whistle blowers.

To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern day slavery and human trafficking within its own business and its supply chains, the Company will provide training as is considered necessary and relevant.

Child Labour

We require all of our suppliers to adhere to the standards set out by the International Labour Organisation as regards the employment of children and young people. In particular:

• children must not be recruited before they have reached the age of completion of compulsory schooling, and in any case not before the age of 15; and
• those under 18 must not be required to perform hazardous duties.

What this policy means for you

 We require all of our staff, suppliers, contractors, agents and all other individuals and businesses with whom we work, to comply with this policy and our approach to modern slavery and human trafficking.

We require all relevant individuals:

• to read and ensure they understand this policy;
• to report any behaviour which they believe may breach this policy to an appropriate manager;
• to communicate our policy to all relevant colleagues and business partners whenever appropriate; and
• to ensure they carry out their roles in a way which enables TPM to comply with this policy.

We require all businesses with whom we work:

• to adopt policies and procedures within their own businesses to enable them (and their staff) to comply with this policy;
• to ensure that their staff hiring practices (including for the hiring of temporary staff via agencies and similar providers) are designed to establish that all workers are giving their labour of their own volition and are not being controlled by others to any extent;
• to adopt policies and procedures in relation to the selection and management of their own suppliers which aim to identify and manage the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking;
• to maintain records to enable them to provide us with the information we need to publish an annual supply chain transparency statement; and
• to monitor the success of the policies and procedures described above, in order to constantly raise standards.

Consequences of breaching this Policy

Any employee who breaches this policy will face disciplinary action, which could result in dismissal for misconduct or gross misconduct.

This policy does not form part of any employee’s contract of employment and we may amend it at any time.

We may terminate our relationship with suppliers and other business partners if they breach this policy.