Year 0 Universal Requirements: Fair Work and Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
The following tables summarize IGP’s key observations from clients working through their Year 0 requirements. These tables include:
Universal Requirement - These are the high-level requirements that all companies must meet. They include the sub-requirement code and text taken from B Lab’s published Body of Knowledge (BoK) plus links to related Knowledge base articles.
Variation by Size/Sector - This describes any differences in how a requirement applies to various company sizes and sectors (called Company Track)
Findings from Early Adopters -This is a summary of common gaps that companies who have conducted a Gap Analysis identified.
SMS Connection - Explains how the requirement should be operationalized within the company’s Sustainability Management System—including the governance structures, policies, processes, and oversight mechanisms needed to implement and maintain it—and identifies the internal teams and stakeholder groups responsible for or affected by the requirement.
Year 3/5 Outlook - While engagements focused on Year 0 requirements, we did highlight Year 3/ 5 requirements that we expect require a longer leadtime and/or additional resources. These requirements are shared in this section.
The requirements covered are (by Impact Topic):
Fair & Transparent Employment Practices (FW1)
Fair Wage (FW2)
Worker Feedback (FW3)
Workplace Culture (FW4)
JEDI (JEDI1, JEDI12)
JEDI Options: Foundation (5 options: JEDI2.a - JEDI2.e)
JEDI Options: Within the Workplace (7 options: JEDI2.f - JEDI2.l)
JEDI Options: Beyond the Workplace (7 options: JEDI2.m - JEDI2.s)
FAIR WORK
JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION (JEDI)
