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FY21 ESG Disclosures July 2022 Unaudited 37 Guided by our values, we have taken a variety of actions to respect human rights in our supply chain. Within the Human Rights section of our Supplier Code of Conduct , we detail human rights requirements for suppliers, including:  Respect human rights in your operations, supply chain and communities where you do business and avoid any involvement in human rights abuses.  Comply with applicable laws regarding equal opportunities, forced labor, child labor, human trafficking, modern slavery, working hours, freedom of association, collective bargaining, recruitment and fair wages.  Treat all your workers with respect and dignity.  Conduct all operations in a harassment-free and nondiscriminatory manner.  Provide a confidential, anonymous mechanism via which workers may report concerns and provide whistleblowers with protection against retaliation.  Provide and/or cooperate in the provision of effective remedy when adverse human rights impacts occur as a result of your activities.  Never require workers to pay employers’ or agents’ recruitment fees or other related fees for their employment.  Never retain or impede workers’ access to personal identification documents and possessions. Human Rights Due Diligence We conduct due diligence to avoid complicity in human rights abuses, and we seek to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through our own activities and business relationships. Supporting our Human Rights Policy, we introduced an updated human rights prequalification questionnaire into our supplier screening process. This dynamic, risk-based assessment includes questions related to worker accommodation, identity documents, wages, recruitment fees, grievance mechanisms, and beyond. More in-depth screening occurs for suppliers based on risk triggers including geography, activity type and employment of migrant workers. Human Rights Mitigation and Remediation Whenever possible, we operate in a spirit of continuous improvement when engaging with our suppliers. We have worked collaboratively with suppliers to raise the working and living standards of their employees, providing coaching to facilitate understanding and alignment with our human rights commitments. For example, we undertook assessments of suppliers providing support services to our offices in a high-risk region. The supplier staff were foreign migrant workers living in group accommodation, and our assessments indicated the conditions of accommodation did not satisfy our expectations. As a remedial measure, we moved the affected staff to apartments with a higher standard of living at our own cost. We also conducted an analysis of supplier staff salaries and detected stagnant wages, although aligned with market rates. To provide additional support to these workers and improve their quality of life, we made the decision to increase their wages at our expense. In addition to internal efforts, we have supported clients’ efforts to reduce human rights risks within their supply chains, including providing guidance and dedicated resources to support the development of worker welfare policies, procedures and auditing programs. For further detail on our human rights commitments and activities, see our global Human Rights Policy and Modern Slavery Statement .

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