We are committed to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and place particular importance on the rights of the International Bill of Human Rights as well as the core labor standards of the International Labor Organization ("ILO").
Human Rights
As participant in the United Nations Global Compact, we are committed to respect human rights, support the rights of employees and their representatives, and protecting the environment.
Accordingly, we are committed to preventing human rights violations from occurring with regard to our own employees and our business partners - in particular our direct suppliers.
We reaffirm our commitment in our Declaration of Principles on Social Responsibility and Human Rights. It forms the basis for how we realize our social responsibility and describes our approach to respect and support human rights at Daimler Truck. The Declaration of Principles complements our commitment to respect human rights from our Daimler Truck Code of Conduct.
Our ambition
We are strongly committed to respect and support human rights and we expect the same from our business partners throughout the value chain.
As one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, Daimler Truck is an important part of the economy and society. Correspondingly, we have a great social responsibility – especially regarding the rights of people, which we are strongly committed to respect and support. One thing is for sure: Human rights are an indispensable cornerstone for successful cooperation, mutual trust and the sustainable success of our company.
Our Path
We rely on a systematic approach to fulfill our human rights due diligence obligations through our Human Rights Compliance Management System (Human Rights CMS). The Human Rights CMS relates to our Group companies and majority shareholdings, as well as to our value chain. It is based on requirements of applicable laws and internationally recognized standards such as the Guiding Principles of the United Nations, which form the basis for regulatory and legislative requirements for business and human rights worldwide.
Human Rights Compliance Management System
Complaints procedure
Human Rights in the Supply Chain
Our progress so far
In view of our commitment to respect and support human rights, we have already implemented various measures, inter alia:
- Daimler Truck Human Rights Exchange: We seek dialogue with potentially affected stakeholders and engage in exchanges with employees or their representatives and civil society groups. The goal is to incorporate their feedback and expertise into the development of our processes and measures to fulfill human rights due diligence obligations, enabling us to continuously improve.
- Our whistleblower system, "SpeakUp," is open for the submission of tip-offs regarding potential human rights violations by our suppliers. The same applies to respective tip-offs relating to our company and employees.
- As a member company of the "Responsible Trucking Initiative" of CSR Europe, we are committed, along with other leading businesses, to improving the working conditions for truck drivers
Our next steps
As part of our Human Rights CMS, we focus on the following topics:
- To continuously develop our Human Rights CMS and perform a comprehensive Human Rights risk assessment. Further details on our processes and measures for implementing the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (“SCDDA”) can be found in the reports of the Daimler Truck Group.
- To continue to pursue our efforts for more transparency in our raw material supply chains, as part of our Human Rights due diligence.
- To continue to raise awareness among our employees with trainings on Human Rights, to give them a basic understanding of the contents of corporate Human Rights due diligence and social responsibility.
