Anti-slavery Policy

POLICY STATEMENT

HOT Cleaning Services is committed to treating all people with due respect and facilitating workspaces and relationships that are safe, ethical, and transparent. We strive to not pursue relationships that facilitate, endorse, or encourage modern slavery practices, whether directly or indirectly operating its business in accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Commonwealth).

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

We will strive to ensure that all workers engaged by us, either as employees or contractors, are

Aware of what constitutes modern slavery
Able to report potential instances of modern slavery within our operations or our operations of our clients, or suppliers;

Are empowered to eliminate potential/or actual modern slavery practices from our operations or supply chain

WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY

Modern slavery is defined by the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Commonwealth) to include eight types of serious exploitation and which can be understood as:

trafficking in persons, which is the recruitment, harbouring and movement of a person for the purposes of exploitation through modern slavery. Exploitation also includes the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, or the removal of organs;
slavery, which is where the offender exercises powers of ownership over the victim;
servitude which is where the victim’s personal freedom is significantly restricted and they are not free to stop working or leave their place of work;
forced labour, which is where the victim is either not free to stop working or not free to leave their place of work;
forced marriage, which is where coercion, threats or deception are used to make a victim marry or where the victim does not understand or is incapable of understanding the nature and effect of the marriage ceremony;
debt bondage, which is where the victim’s services are pledged as security for a debt and the debt is manifestly excessive or the victim’s services are not applied to liquidate the debt, or the length and nature of the services are not limited and defined;
the worst forms of child labour, which involves situations where children are: exploited through slavery or similar practices, including for sexual exploitation; or engaged in hazardous work which may harm their health or safety, or used to produce or traffic drugs; and
deceptive recruiting for labour or services which is where the victim is deceived about whether they will be exploited through a type of modern slavery.

It can also extends to:

entering a commercial transaction involving a slave;
exercising control or direction over, or providing finance for, any commercial transaction involving a slave or act of slave trading;
conducting a business involving servitude or forced labour (including exercising control over the business or providing finance to it.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Directors and Operations

have overall responsibility for this policy and in ensuring that the company complies with all its legal and ethical obligations amended as appropriate, to ensure it can operate effectively.

Workers

All workers have a responsibility for reporting concerns about real or perceived modern slavery risks in our operations, in our relationships with clients and or in our supply chain.

CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS AND SUPPLY CHAINS

HOT Cleaning Services is committed to making sure that it does not engage suppliers that breach Modern Slavery legislation by regularly reviewing supply agreements/arrangements. Where reasonable and practical HOT Cleaning Services supply contracts will include a clause pertaining to Modern Slavery that:

Provide commitments to eradicating Modern Slavery within its own supply chains;
Warranting that it has not been convicted of a Modern Slavery offence; and conduct due diligence on it supply chain and contracts for works to be entered into.

REPORTING CONCERNS

A key part of supporting our approach is enabling our workers and other people (including Suppliers and Clients) to feel free and safe to speak up when there are reasonable grounds to suspect that HOT Cleaning Services, its suppliers, or clients are not acting in accordance with this policy.

Concerns about compliance can be reported to:

The Director Charity Mezger 08 9921 6400 or email management@hotcleaning.com.au
The General Manager Roche Mezger 08 99212544 or email gm@hotcleaningservices.com.au