Arina Jewellery believes in doing business with those business partners, including suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, joint venture partners, agents, distributors, and consultants who embrace and demonstrate high standards of ethical business behaviour.
The following Global Standards for Business Partners define the minimum requirements for Arina Jewellery business partners.
Product Quality and Safety
Arina Jewellery has a fundamental responsibility to ensure that consumers can trust the safety and quality of its products.
Business partners are expected to provide goods and services that meet or exceed all government and all agreed upon quality and safety standards. Any threats to product safety must be immediately reported to Arina Jewellery.Arina Jewellery especially has a focus on transparency and honesty at all times in the relation with their business partners.
Also we want that all our suppliers have a clear sourcing and supply chain with an extra focus on sourcing from CAHRA’s (conflict-affected and high-risk areas).
Employment Practices
Arina Jewellery has a strong commitment to treating its employees fairly, and with dignity and respect. We believe in doing business with business partners who share this commitment, and we expect business partners to comply with all applicable employment laws and to support fundamental human rights for all people. Our expectations include:
- Child labour - Business partners will not employ individuals in violation of the local mandatory school age, or under the legal employment age in each country where they operate. Moreover, in no case will business partners employ non-family workers under age 18, except for child actors and models employed in advertising or media who are protected by applicable child labour requirements.
- Compensation - Business partners will, at a minimum, comply with applicable wage and hour laws and regulations, including those relating to minimum wages.
- Discrimination - Business partners will not discriminate based on personal characteristics or beliefs. Arina Jewellery will favour those business partners who provide equal opportunity to all.
- Forced labour - Business partners will not use forced or involuntary labour whether bonded, prison or indentured, including debt servitude.
- Freedom of association and collective bargaining - Business partners will respect the right of employees to exercise their lawful right of free association. Similarly, business partners will recognize the lawful rights of their employees to choose or not choose collective bargaining representation.
- Safety and health - Business partners will operate a safe and healthy work environment for their employees. Where applicable, this also applies to housing and eating facilities.
- Workplace harassment or abuse - Business partners will not subject employees to physical, verbal, sexual, or psychological harassment, nor use corporal or physical punishment to discipline employees.
- Working hours - Business partners will comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding working hours.
Environment
Arina Jewellery believes in doing business with business partners who share its commitment to protecting the quality of the environment around the world
Through sound environmental management.Business partners are expected to comply with all applicable environmental laws.
Arina Jewellery will favour business partners who seek to minimize the use of non-renewable resources, reduce and recycle waste, and minimize the environmental impact of their operations.
Conflicts of Interest
Arina Jewellery expects business decisions to be made in the best interest of the company. Any situation that creates or appears to create a conflict between personal interests and the interests of Arina Jewellery must be avoided.
A conflict of interest may arise when doing business with an organization that employs or is partially or fully owned by a Arina Jewellery employee or an employee's family members or close personal friends.
Business partners are expected to disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest to Arina Jewellery.
Anti-corruption
Arina Jewellery strictly abides by all applicable laws relating to anti-corruption, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and expects business partners to act in a similar manner.
Business partners may not pay bribes or engage in corrupt practices in order to advance Arina Jewellery's business interests. This includes, directly or indirectly, offering, promising to pay or authorizing the payment of money or anything of value to local government officials, political parties, party officials, candidates for political office, or officials of public international organizations (like the European Union or the World Bank) in an effort to influence any official decision that would assist Arina Jewellery in obtaining or retaining business, or securing any improper commercial advantage.
Gifts, Favours and Entertainment
Gifts, favours and entertainment are not needed in order to conduct business with Arina Jewellery, and may lead or appear to lead to a conflict of interest.
In many industries and countries, gifts, favours and entertainment are used to strengthen business relationships. Throughout the world, one principle is common and clear: No gift, favour or entertainment should be provided or accepted if it will obligate or appear to obligate the recipient.
Gifts or entertainment may be provided if they are reasonable complements to business relationships, or of modest value, and, in any event, not against the law or Arina Jewellery policy. Arina Jewellery employees may not accept gifts, favours and entertainment valued at more than USD 100 in any year from the same company. In some instances, the Arina Jewellery entity you are dealing with may have a lower limit. Arina Jewellery policy expressly prohibits the following situations for Arina Jewellery employees:
- Requesting or soliciting personal gifts, favours, entertainment, or services.
- Exploiting their position to solicit vendors, including financial institutions, to provide individual preferential treatment in pricing, terms or loans.
- Receiving cash or cash equivalents.
- Being provided with lavish or excessive gifts and entertainment.
Confidential Information
Business partners are expected to safeguard Arina Jewellery's confidential information by keeping it secure, limiting access to those who have a need to know in order to do their job, and avoiding discussion of confidential information in public areas, for example on planes, in elevators and on mobile phones.
Arina Jewellery's confidential information may not be disclosed as it provides Arina Jewellery a competitive advantage. Examples of confidential information include trade secrets, detailed sales and profit figures, new product or marketing plans, research and development ideas or information, manufacturing processes, personnel information, and information about potential acquisitions, divestitures and investments. The obligation to preserve Arina Jewellery's confidential information may be ongoing, even after the business relationship ends.
Arina Jewellery will respect and safeguard the confidential information of our business partners.
Fair Competition and Antitrust
Arina Jewellery believes in free and open competition, and strictly abides by all applicable fair competition and antitrust laws in the many countries where Arina Jewellery conducts business.
Business partners are expected to comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding fair competition and antitrust.
Other Legal Requirements
Business partners are expected to comply with all applicable laws not otherwise set forth in these Standards. When used in these Standards, "applicable laws" include all applicable local, state, provincial, and national laws, codes, rules and regulations as well as all applicable treaties.
Communication
We expect our business partners to communicate these Standards to their employees and their business partners, and for their employees and business partners to adhere to them.
Monitoring and Compliance
Business partners are expected to notify Arina Jewellery immediately if they become aware of any non-compliant practices by themselves, their employees and their business partners under these Standards. Business partners are further expected to promptly develop and implement plans or programs to correct any such practices. Business partners should also be aware of the fact Arina Jewellery engages in various monitoring activities to confirm compliance with these Standards, including conducting its own and independent third-party site inspections and audits.
Our Expectation
We expect all business partners to live up to these Standards and do the right thing.
A business partner's failure to observe and abide by these Standards may result in Arina Jewellery ceasing to do business with it.
Questions or Concerns
Arina Jewellery strongly encourages any business partner who feels pressured by a Arina Jewellery employee or another business partner to violate these Standards to contact the senior management of the Arina Jewellery.