SAINSBURY'S SUPERMARKETS LTD modern slavery statement summary (2024)
Organisation address
London,
EC1N 2HT
We asked the organisation a series of questions about its modern slavery statement. Its answers are published on this page as a statement summary.
This statement provides information for all 6 recommended areas
What is a modern slavery statement?
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About this statement summary
All answers relate to the financial year covered by the statement. The organisation is responsible for all the information it provided. Some of our questions are optional, so organisations may not have answered all of them. The statement summary does not replace the full modern slavery statement – below we provide a link to the full statement on the organisation’s website.
Contents
- Organisations covered by the statement
- Legal requirement to publish
- Statement period and sign-off details
- Recommended areas covered by the statement
- The organisation’s sectors and turnover
- Number of years producing statements
- Policies
- Training
- Monitoring working conditions
- Modern slavery risks
- Finding indicators of modern slavery
- Demonstrating progress
Organisations covered by the statement
SAINSBURY'S SUPERMARKETS LTD modern slavery statement for 2024 is a group statement covering 10 organisations. See the full list of organisations covered by this statement
Legal requirement to publish
SAINSBURY'S SUPERMARKETS LTD has confirmed it is required to publish a 2024 statement by law.
Statement period and sign-off details
The statement covers the following period:
5 March 2023 to 2 March 2024
The statement was signed off by:
Simon Roberts (Chief Executive Office)
It was approved by the board (or equivalent management body) on:
4 July 2024
Recommended areas covered by the statement
Government guidance encourages organisations to cover a range of areas in their modern slavery statements, setting out the steps they’re taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. Read about the recommended areas in the statutory guidance.
We asked the organisation to tell us which areas its statement covers.
Areas recommended by government guidance | Organisation’s response |
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The organisation’s structure, business and supply chains | Covered |
Policies | Covered |
Risk assessment | Covered |
Due diligence (steps to address risk) | Covered |
Training about modern slavery | Covered |
Goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of the organisation's actions and progress over time | Covered |
The organisation’s sectors and turnover
Sectors
The organisation operates in the following sectors:
- Cosmetics and toiletries
- Durable consumer goods, including electronics and appliances, home furnishings and other accessories
- Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
Turnover
Its turnover in the financial accounting year of this statement was:
Over £500 million
What does 'turnover' refer to in group statements?
Number of years producing statements
How does this work for group statements?
Policies (optional)
Policy provisions we asked about | Organisation’s response |
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Freedom of workers to terminate employment | Included |
Freedom of movement | Included |
Freedom of association | Included |
Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation | Included |
Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees | Included |
Prohibits compulsory overtime | Included |
Prohibits child labour | Included |
Prohibits discrimination | Included |
Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents | Included |
Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery | Included |
Other |
Not included
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Training (optional)
What counts as training?
We asked who the training was for | Organisation’s response |
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Your whole organisation | No |
Your front line staff | No |
Human resources | Yes |
Executive-level staff | Yes |
Procurement staff | Yes |
Your suppliers | Yes |
The wider community | No |
Other |
No
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Monitoring working conditions (optional)
Engaging with others
We asked who the organisation engaged with | Organisation’s response |
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Your suppliers | Yes |
Trade unions or worker representative groups | Yes |
Civil society organisations | Yes |
Professional auditors | Yes |
Workers within your organisation | Yes |
Workers within your supply chain | Yes |
Central or local government | Yes |
Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates | No |
Businesses in your industry or sector | Yes |
Social audits
What are social audits?
Social audits we asked about | Organisation’s response |
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Audit conducted by your staff | Yes |
Third party audit arranged by your organisation | Yes |
Audit conducted by your supplier’s staff | No |
Third party audit arranged by your supplier | Yes |
Announced audit | Yes |
Unannounced audit | Yes |
Grievance mechanisms
We asked if workers could raise concerns this way | Organisation’s response |
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Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app | Yes |
Through trade unions or other worker representative groups | Yes |
Other ways of monitoring working conditions
Modern slavery risks (optional)
Priority risks for this organisation (1 of 3)
Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
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Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
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Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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In which country | Organisation’s response: United Kingdom |
Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: Working with industry in the Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce. Sainsbury’s contributes through workstreams that aim to improve worker access to information and grievance mechanisms and improve worker finances. We also work with our suppliers to address issues collaboratively when they occur. |
Priority risks for this organisation (2 of 3)
Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
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Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
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Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: We are part of the Seafood Ethics Action Alliance to collaboratively address human rights and labour standards in the seafood sector, improve human rights due diligence, advocate to governments and support projects. We continue to support development of a national grievance mechanism in the Maldives and resources that inform migrant workers of their rights. We partner with Issara Institute to tackle forced labour and human trafficking in Thailand and provide worker voice channels. |
Priority risks for this organisation (3 of 3)
Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
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Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
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Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: Our policy states that suppliers must source cotton through one of our accepted independent programmes and that they must not knowingly use any cotton fibre sourced from Turkmenistan or Xinjiang. We expect all reasonable efforts be made to identify fibre origin and the route of cotton through the supply chain and we collect this information through our supplier reporting platform. |
Indicators of forced labour (optional)
What are ILO indicators of forced labour?
ILO indicators we asked about | Organisation’s response |
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Abuse of vulnerability | No |
Deception | Yes |
Restriction of movement | No |
Isolation | No |
Physical and sexual violence | Yes |
Intimidation and threats | Yes |
Retention of identity documents | No |
Withholding of wages | No |
Debt bondage | Yes |
Abusive working and living conditions | Yes |
Excessive overtime | No |
Other |
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Actions taken in response to finding ILO indicators
Actions we asked about | Organisation’s response |
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Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees | Yes |
Change in policy | No |
Change in training | Yes |
Referring potential victims to government services | Yes |
Supporting victims via NGO | Yes |
Supporting investigations by relevant authorities | Yes |
Other |
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