Modern Slavery Policy 

Treloar Australia acknowledges that our industry operates in a high risk sector due to the complex supply chains in product sourcing and manufacturing.

Through our working relationship with long established manufacturers, predominantly in China, and their local Australian partners, we seek to address modern slavery and unethical sourcing risks.

Treloar Australia is an established supplier of uniforms in Australasia, supply leading OEM’s in the local Automotive Industry, as well as corporate clients and non-profits.

The Anti-Slavery International website identifies modern slavery as practices that relate to:

• Human trafficking
  Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud, coercion, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit. 
• Forced labour
  Forced labour is any work or service that people are forced to do against their will, usually under threat of punishment.
• Bonded labour
  Bonded labour occurs when a person is forced to work to pay off a debt. People who experience debt bondage have often been tricked into working for little or no pay. In many cases they are forced to pay off extortionate fees associated with their recruitment, accommodation, or food, with no control over the debt they have accrued. Most or all the money they earn goes to pay off their ‘loan’.
• Child slavery
  Common forms of child slavery include prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, organised begging, petty crime, participation in armed conflict and labour exploitation in the private economy.
• Child marriage
  The 2022 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery show that there has been a significant rise in people living in forced marriages since 2016 – this increase of 6.6 million people includes a significant proportion of children. Overall, 41% of people forced to marry are children, and, while it very rare for children under the age of 10 to be forced into marriage, the Estimates included reports of children aged 9 who had been forced into marriage.

• Descent-based slavery
  Descent-based slavery describes a situation where people are born into slavery. This is usually because their ancestors were captured into slavery, and their families have ‘belonged’ to the slave-owning families ever since. The slavery status is passed down the maternal line.This form of slavery can still be found across the Sahel belt of Africa, including in Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Chad and Sudan. Many other African societies also have a traditional hierarchy where people are known to be the descendants of slaves or slave-owners.

• Domestic slavery
  Domestic workers are often particularly vulnerable to exploitation and domestic slavery because of the unique circumstances in which they work – inside a private household – and a general lack of legal protection.

• Slavery in supply chains
  Many of the products and services we buy and use every day are produced or undertaken by people trapped in modern slavery, including forced labour.Slavery can exist in every stage of the supply chain, from harvesting or extracting raw materials  to manufacturing and shipping.Treloar Australia supports international efforts to reduce and eliminate all forms of Modern Slavery and works with our partners to promote this in our manufacturing and sourcing practices within the resources and reporting available to us.

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

 We work on the basis that:

• we do not support the exploitation of labour of any kind and we expect our suppliers to comply with all local laws and regulations.
• we will not knowingly use or contribute to modern slavery practices in any form.
• we acknowledge that any form of exploitative treatment, punishment, abuse of labour rights and coercive control of workers in our operations or supply chains is unacceptable.
• we work with our customers to ensure that purchasing decisions are not based solely on price, but also have consideration for ethical and environmental risks and opportunities.

In short, we are working to do our part to reduce modern slavery.

Emidio Righetti
General Manager- Sales

Treloar Australia(Mike Treloar Investments Pty Ltd)

57 Mills Rd
Braeside
VIC 3195
Australia

E: emidio@treloarapparel.com.au

PH 03 9580 0022