CSR - Human Rights and Ethical Sourcing

At Hasbro, we believe all people are entitled to fundamental rights and freedoms. We regard safety, well-being and dignity — of our employees, the workers in our supply chain and children everywhere — as deeply held obligations.

Working with partners and suppliers around the world on human rights and ethical sourcing issues is complex, but we remain vigilant in our commitment to ensure everyone in our supply chain is treated in accordance with the law and our rigorous ethical requirements. Specifically, we work with our third-party factories, licensees and stakeholders to address social compliance and help ensure our products are manufactured in working conditions that are fair, safe and legal for workers and that support local communities.

Our Human Rights Policy

We assessed and mapped human rights risks and opportunities across our company, which ultimately led us to focus on three primary constituencies: employees, supply chain workers and children. Each of these groups is essential to Hasbro’s success and we developed specific actions to meet their needs.

EMPLOYEES We implement our human rights commitment through our Guide to Corporate Conduct, our human resources policies and our Environment, Health and Safety Policy. This commitment includes ensuring that employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications and abilities, employees are compensated fairly and that we foster a culture of inclusion to support a diverse workforce.
SUPPLY CHAIN WORKERS Supply chain partners are required to comply with the Global Business Ethics Principles and undergo annual, unannounced and comprehensive audits. These audits are scored through a Factory Rating system that ties a factory’s ethical sourcing performance to business incentives and consequences. Hasbro prohibits all forms of forced labor, including human trafficking and modern slavery, as detailed in our Global Modern Slavery Statement. Our beyond-compliance female empowerment program provides women with the opportunity to gain skills and confidence helping them to advance in society.
CHILDREN We believe that the well-being of children globally is inextricably linked to the success of our company. Our commitment to respecting the human rights of children is implemented through our deep and long-standing commitment to Product Safety, Community investments to support children-based initiatives and our Conflict Minerals program.

We ensure that Hasbro employees and workers have channels to report and address human rights concerns. Our global ethics helpline and two confidential mailboxes allow employees to report issues anonymously and without fear of retaliation. For third-party factory workers, we are exploring best practices to further strengthen the anonymous grievance mechanism accessible through our social compliance program.

At Hasbro, we believe all people are entitled to fundamental rights and freedoms. We regard safety, well-being and dignity — of our employees, the workers in our supply chain and children everywhere — as deeply held obligations.

Working with partners and suppliers around the world on human rights and ethical sourcing issues is complex, but we remain vigilant in our commitment to ensure everyone in our supply chain is treated in accordance with the law and our rigorous ethical requirements. Specifically, we work with our third-party factories, licensees and stakeholders to address social compliance and help ensure our products are manufactured in working conditions that are fair, safe and legal for workers and that support local communities.

Managing Ethical Sourcing in Our Supply Chain

Ensuring social compliance in our supply chain around the world is a continuous process that requires careful monitoring. At Hasbro, our process for ensuring compliance within our factory base includes prequalification, monitoring, oversight, transparency, capacity building, and partnerships. Please see below for our annual Top 10 Critical Audit Findings and Corrective Action rate.

Our Ethical Sourcing program is designed to support our current and expanding sourcing model. We engage directly with Hasbro third-party vendors and licensees to drive social and environmental compliance and require them to do the same within their supply chains, including auditing and monitoring of subcontractors.

For a full list of Hasbro vendors and third-party factories, see our 2020 list.

Conflict Minerals

Ethical sourcing includes efforts to ensure that specific minerals (tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, or “3TG”) come from conflict-free sources, as profits from mining these minerals in certain locations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in designated surrounding countries (the “Covered Countries”) are used to finance the ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in that region.

Each year, Hasbro files a conflict minerals disclosure form as required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We also conduct a Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI) to determine if necessary 3TG minerals were sourced from the Covered Countries. All contract manufacturers of products believed to contain 3TG were surveyed about the source of these minerals.

The results of our due diligence on the 3TG used in our in-scope products are noted here:

See our full Conflict Minerals Report for 2021.