Modern Slavery Policy
Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy
Introduction
The JR Group is committed to improving our policies and playing our role in eradicating Modern Slavery in all its forms from our business and supply chain.
We are taking the appropriate steps to ensure that everyone who works for the JR Group benefits from fair working practices in which their fundamental rights are respected and that our supply chain and anyone we do work with upholds these principles.
The information in this statement details the policies, processes, and actions we have taken to ensure that slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in our supply chains or any part of our own business. It covers the activities of all businesses which form the JR Group and is our Modern Slavery statement for 2020/2021 as required under the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”)
Group Structure
The JR Group comprises 5 separate businesses to which this policy relates to. As a group we employ around 200 employees and operate with Scotland and the north or England. The JR Group includes:
- JR Construction (Scotland) Ltd
- JR Scaffold Services Ltd
- JR Specialist Services Ltd
- JR Homes Ltd
- DC Timber Systems Ltd
Supply chain
The JR Group and the 5 businesses within operate a shared supply chain who are committed to meeting both legal and ethical standards in their daily operations., while ensuring that compliance is managed appropriately across their own supply chain partners.
We communicate our policies and procedures in our open and transparent approach to procurement which sets out the basic principles of how we will conduct business and the behaviours and practices we expect of our supply chain, including a commitment to comply with the Act.
Our supply chain includes:
- Subcontractors
- Martial suppliers
- Recruitment agencies
- Plant and equipment suppliers
- Professional services
Our Policy
It is the policy of the JR Group to ensure that we will not employ any person who has been forced to work in relation to slavery or human trafficking.
We will comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2015
The JR Group shall make all reasonable steps to check that the person they are employing can legally work within the UK or in any other countries that we may operate within.
The JR Group will ensure that our supply chain will take all reasonable steps to check that their employees are not involved with slavery or human trafficking.
Checking will include:
- Obtaining National Insurance Numbers for employees
- Obtaining work references from previous employers
- Ensuring that our Supply Chain will have procedures in place to check the legibility of the employee to work in the UK
- Ensuring that the relevant Work Permits are in place
- Procuring materials from legal sources to ensure that no slavery or human trafficking is involved in producing the material
- Checking the person is of the appropriate age, 16 years old or older, to carry out the job
- Carry out any audit on our supply chain to ensure compliance with this policy
Due Diligence
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk, we have in place systems to identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains, mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains, monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains and protect whistle blowers. In addition, as part of our contract with any supply chain member, we require that each member of our supply chain confirms to us that:
- They have taken steps to eradicate Modern Slavery within their business.
- They hold their own supply chain to account over Modern Slavery.
- They pay their employees at least the national minimum wage / national living wage (as appropriate).
The JR Group shall enforce its contractual rights should any instances of Modern Slavery come to light. We are fully committed to making sure that no business practices – either internally or through our external supply chain – would contravene Section 54 and/or Clause 5 of the Act, are tolerated.
Training
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we actively promote engagement in events, briefing sessions and provide training to relevant staff throughout our business and supply chain.
Board approval
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our slavery and human trafficking statement.
We shall undertake annual review of the effectiveness of the steps we have taken to ensure that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains with a view to identifying further steps that we can take. The JR Group Board approved this statement on the 11 March 2021. The statement will be reviewed and updated in January 2024.
John Horne
Managing Director
January 2023
Gary McGregor
Managing Director
January 2023
