ASML Holding N.V.
NASDAQ : ASML
2016 Information & Communications Technology
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SUMMARY
ASML Holding (ASML) ranks fifteenth on the ICT benchmark overall, demonstrating below average disclosure of its approach to managing forced labor risks in its supply chain. ASML demonstrates an awareness of the risks of forced labor across the themes investigated; however, the company performs below the benchmark average across all themes. ASML has a number of opportunities to improve its performance particularly in the themes traceability and risk assessment, worker voice, and recruitment. The largest opportunities for improvement is in its approach to addressing recruitment practices in its supply chain, where the company may consider adopting a supplier requirement that no fees be charged during any recruitment process and that fees are repaid to workers in the event that such fees are discovered to have been paid.
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THEME & indicator score
The benchmark methodology has seven themes, selected to capture the key areas where companies need to take action to eradicate forced labour from their supply chains. The themes are comprised of a total of 12 key indicators. For each indicator, a company can score a total of 100 points.
Commitment and Governance
The company's top-level commitments on forced labor, supply chain standards, management processes, training programs and stakeholder engagement
Awareness and Commitment | 50 / 100 |
Supply Chain Standards | 20 / 100 |
Management and Accountability | 50 / 100 |
Training | 50 / 100 |
Stakeholder Engagement | 50 / 100 |
Traceability and Risk Assessment
The extent to which the company traces its supply chain and conducts forced labor risk assessments, and discloses information about these processes.
Traceability and Supply Chain Transparency | / 100 |
Transparency | / 100 |
Purchasing Practices
The company's awareness and action on purchasing practices that can exacerbate forced labor risks, and its process for selecting suppliers, integrating standards into contracts and cascading them down the supply chain.
Purchasing Practices | 0 / 100 |
Supplier Selection | 0 / 100 |
Integration into Supplier Contracts | 100 / 100 |
Cascading Standards Through the Supply Chain | 50 / 100 |
Recruitment
Recruitment Approach | 0 / 100 |
Recruitment Fees | 0 / 100 |
Recruitment Audits | 0 / 100 |
Worker Voice
The extent to which the company proactively communicates with workers through the supply chain, enables freedom of association and ensures access to effective and trusted grievance mechanisms.
Communication of Policies | 0 / 100 |
Worker Voice | 0 / 100 |
Worker Empowerment | 0 / 100 |
Grievance Mechanism | 20 / 100 |
Monitoring
The company's process for auditing (including whether it includes non-scheduled visits, document review, worker interviews) and disclosure about the audit process and findings.
Auditing Process | 25 / 100 |
Auditing Disclosure | 40 / 100 |
Remedy
The extent to which the company has corrective action plans for non-compliant factories, as well as processes for remedying workers who are victims of forced labor, and reports on remedies provided.
Corrective Action Plans | 75 / 100 |
Remedy Programs | 0 / 100 |