Human Rights In Our Supply Chain

As an international company with global supply chains, the Aldi South Group is aware of our responsibility to respect human rights. The Aldi South Group is certain that long-term business success can only be ensured if human rights are acknowledged and respected. We believe that companies should be committed to respecting human rights and preventing human rights violations. Our commitment, therefore, encompasses our own business operations and our business relationships, as well as those indirectly caused by our actions.

For more information about our due diligence actions in order to respect human rights, please click here.

You can also view the Aldi South Group’s Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Policy here which outlines our human rights due diligence process and future commitments.

Modern Slavery

has no place in our businesses or supply chains. Preventing these abuses from happening is a global issue that Aldi and our partners are committed to addressing.

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Women's Empowerment

We support women’s empowerment in flower farms in Ethiopia, where we are one of the largest retailers of Fairtrade flowers in the UK.

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Monitoring Our Suppliers

We are committed to human rights and fair labour practices and expect all people in our supply chains to be treated with fairness, respect, and dignity.

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Key progress since 2018

1

In February 2020 we won the Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Award and have been recognised for taking positive steps towards tackling modern slavery.

2

In 2021, we delivered extensive training on modern slavery to both our own employees and our suppliers. This included partnering with the Slave-Free Alliance to create a modern slavery e-learning module for our colleagues outlining our ethical requirements, and delivering modern slavery awareness raising training for our produce buying teams.

3

In 2022, Aldi UK and Ireland took a targeted approach to modern slavery, focusing on areas of our business and our supply chain where the level of risk was highest; this included Logistics, Produce and Flowers, Recruitment and Construction.

4

In 2023, Aldi UK continued its strategy of mitigating the risk of Modern Slavery occurring in our operations via the provision of Modern Slavery awareness training in the areas of GBFR, high risk Buying areas, Logistics, Human Resources and Construction.

Forward-looking plans

We have taken proactive steps to refine and develop our processes and policies to reduce human rights risk in our supply chain.

Implementing our Ethical Trade Strategy to address social and environmental risks in high priority food commodity groups as identified in our human rights risk assessment. The strategy will enable us to prioritise risks, based on human rights risk and our level of influence, as well as steps we will take to mitigate risk and measure impact, ensuring our focus remains on where we can have the greatest positive impact on workers.

Broadening existing partnerships with key partners such as the Flood Network for Ethical Trade and Stronger Together.

Supporting the Spain Ethical Trade Forum, a collaboration between retailers, suppliers and growers to improve working conditions in the Spanish produce sector, which we signed up to in April 2018.

Assessing the risk of modern slavery in high-risk areas of our business and supply chain, including Produce, Horticulture and Logistics.

Strengthening our employee training on modern slavery by running Stronger Together workshops for employees working in areas where there may be a higher risk of modern slavery, including Buying and Logistics.

OUR PARTNERSHIPS

Stop Slavery Award

In February 2020, Aldi UK won the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Stop Slavery Enterprise Award for goods and service companies. We were recognised for our efforts in tackling modern slavery and taking positive steps to protect human rights in the supply chain. We will continue to work collaboratively to raise awareness and drive better standards.