The 12 dimensions of analysis of the assessment carried out by Fair Wage Network:
DIMENSION DEFINITION
1.Payment of wages A wage which is regularly and formally paid in full to the workers.
2. Living wage A wage that ensures minimum acceptable living standards.
3. Minimum wage A wage that complies with the regulations on legal minimum wage.
4. Prevaling wage A wage that is comparable to wages in similar enterprises operating in the same sector in the same country.
5. Payment of working hours A wage based mainly on ordinary working hours without requiring to use excessive overtime.
6. Pay system A wage that leads to a balanced wage structure/composition between basic wage, additional bonuses and benefits.
A wage that reflects different levels of education, skill and professional experience, as well as rewarding individual and collective performance.
A wage that complies with regulations on social insurance payments and paid holidays and that doe not include disciplinary wage sanctions.
7. Communication and social dialogue A wage on which workers receive sufficient information in advance (through an individual work contract), during the production process (through regular communication channels) and at the time of the wage payment (through a detailed payslip).
A wage that is negotiated individually (with the employer only) and collec- tively in particular through collective bargaining between the employer and the workers' representatives who are freely accepted in the company.
8. Wage discrimination and wage disparity A system based on equal wages for equal work that does not lead to wage discrimination and does not generate unjustified, too high and too rapidly growing wage differentials within the company.
9. Real wages A wage that progresses at least in proportion to price increases.
10. Wage share A wage that grows in proportion to the company s sales and profits and does not lead to a fall in wage share compared to the company s performance growth.
11. Wage cost A wage whose progression does not lead to a dramatic reduction in wage costs within total production costs and as a percentage of employment.
12. Work intensity, technology and up-skilling A wage that progresses along with changes in intensity at work, techno- logical contents and the evolving skills and tasks of the labour force.
ANIMAL WELFARE AND TRACEABILITY Down, the heart of every single jacket, is the most important thing to Moncler. For this reason, all suppliers are not only required to meet the highest quality standards, but also to act responsibly and with full respect of animal welfare.
To ensure animal welfare, Moncler demands and verifies that its down suppliers comply with the strict requirements laid down in the Moncler technical DIST Protocol (Down Integrity Sys- tem & Traceability), available on the page dist.moncler.com. The DIST protocol, first implemented in 2015, regulates farming stan- dards, animal welfare, down traceability and technical quality. Moncler only purchases down that is DIST-certified.
Among the basic requirements that must be respected across the entire supply chain: down must be exclusively sourced from farmed white geese
and as a by-product of the food chain no form of live-plucking or forced feeding is permitted.
The Protocol, drafted taking into consideration the peculiarities of the Moncler s supply chain, is the result of open and construc- tive dialogue within the scope of a multi-stakeholder forum set up in 2014, which considered the expectations of the various stake- holders to ensure a scientific and holistic approach to the topic of animal welfare and product traceability. The forum, chaired by a professor of Management at the Ca Foscari University of Ven- ice with specific knowledge and expertise in sustainability issues, consists not only of Moncler people, but also of experts from the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Milan, the Polish National Institute of Animal Husbandry Koluda Wielka, Compassion in World Farming (a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the welfare of farm animals), and representatives from certification and consulting companies (SGS, Control Union, IDFL and KPMG). From the belief that dialogue is a source of im- provement, Moncler organised the eighth multi-stakeholder forum in February 2022. At the forum, the new updates to the Pro- tocol aimed at further developing the document were discussed, which will include three specific modules on human rights, the en- vironment and the DIST down recycling procedure.
The DIST Protocol assesses animal welfare from an inno- vative perspective. In addition to the traditional approach that fo- cuses on the environment in which the animal lives (in terms of availability of food and water, adequate space for movement, etc.), the Protocol, in line with the European Commission guidelines, al- so assesses welfare by carefully observing the animal through the so-called Animal-Based Measures (ABMs)5. ABMs allow a di- rect assessment of an animal s condition, by observing how geese respond to the different factors of the environment in which they live (outcome approach). The DIST Protocol features nine ABMs including, among others, those designed to identify unusual be- haviours or aspects such as plumophagia6, dislocated or broken wings, feather irregularities, abnormal beak colour.
These situations can be associated with environments in which welfare of geese is compromised by various factors, includ- ing high animal density, inadequate diet, lack of pasture or inap- propriate animal management.
Another important, innovative indicator introduced in the Protocol is the evaluation of the human-animal interaction through the response to a specific test (the HAR test, Estep and Hetts, 1992).
All down suppliers must strictly comply with the Protocol s requirements to ensure raw material traceability, animal welfare and the highest quality at every link of the down supply chain. To verify compliance with the principles set out in the Protocol, Mon- cler constantly carries out strict field audits throughout its al- most entirely vertically-integrated down supply chain. The down supply chain includes different types of entities: geese farms; slaughterhouses where animals are exclusively slaughtered for meat production and where down is subsequently collected; and companies responsible for washing, cleaning, sorting and pro- cessing the raw material. Façon manufacturers who realise the finished products downstream the down purchasing process also have to be taken into account.
5 Animal-Based Measures are indicators that can be directly ob- served on animals and that assess their actual conditions in relation to their ability to adapt to specific farming environ- ments. These measures include physiological, pathological and behavioural indicators.
6 Plumophagia is an abnormal behaviour in avian species that consists of pecking the feathers of another bird or tearing them with the beak.
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