II. NORMATIVE ELEMENTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

The company shall comply with national and other applicable law, other requirements to which the company subscribes, and this standard. When national and other applicable law, other requirements to which the company subscribes, and this standard address the same issue, that provision which is most stringent applies.

The company shall also respect the principles of the following international instruments:

ILO Conventions 29 and 105 (Forced & Bonded Labour)
ILO Convention 87 (Freedom of Association)
ILO Convention 98 (Right to Collective Bargaining)
ILO Conventions 100 and 111 (Equal remuneration for male and female workers for work of equal value; Discrimination)
ILO Convention 135 (Workers' Representatives Convention)
ILO Convention 138 & Recommendation 146 (Minimum Age and Recommendation)
ILO Convention 155 & Recommendation 164 (Occupational Safety & Health)
ILO Convention 159 (Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment/Disabled Persons)
ILO Convention 177 (Home Work)
ILO Convention 182 (Worst Forms of Child Labour)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women