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We recognise that the UK SWS does not currently align with EPP, with workers typically paying the costs of travel and their visa to work in the UK. The EPP feasibility study should investigate the practicalities and costs of implementing EPP for seasonal workers and provide guidance on the role that different actors in the supply chains need to play...

Sainsbury's Ethical Sourcing policy includes a commitment to the Consumer Goods Forum Priority Principles on Forced Labour, which states that "no worker should pay for a job." Our position on responsible recruitment is communicated to our suppliers in our supplier manuals...

As part of our human rights saliency assessment, we identified forced labour as one of our salient human rights risks and the UK agriculture sector as an area of risk where we have the opportunity to drive positive change.

The significant change in where seasonal workers are recruited from in recent years, due to international events, has created risks that require us to improve and increase our due diligence...

In the last 12 months, we received a limited number of allegations related to the UK SWS. We worked collaboratively with out supplier partners and other retailers to carry out investigations and develop remediation plans where issues have been identified...