Responsible Business Conduct & Ethics

Our ethical principles:

• Loyalty: we place trust at the heart of our relationships with both clients and employees.
• Respect for people: we value respect, dignity and consideration for all people regardless of their background, age, gender, beliefs and life choices.
• Transparency: we ensure that our customers, employees and shareholders are informed accurately and clearly about our products and services.
• Business integrity: we condemn all practices that are not based on honesty, integrity and fairness.

 

Find out more about our ethical principles in our Code of Conduct, the "Business Integrity Guide". Each of our employees understands and shares this commitment to the fight against corruption and unfair competition.

 

Ethics & Compliance Governance:

Our ethics and compliance committee ensures responsible business conduct. The committee strives to:

• Deploy an ethical and compliant culture, programs and policies throughout the company, in all countries
• Supporting all the ethics and compliance committees around the world
• Reviewing specific issues brought to the attention of the committee

 

We are also a member of the following organisations, referring to their expertise:

• Institute of business ethics
• The business ethics circle
• European business ethics network

 

Our "responsible business conduct" integrity program is based on three pillars:

• Sodexo communicates its founding principles and values and encourages its employees to follow them at all levels of the group.
• Sodexo raises awareness among all its employees through various training campaigns related to responsible buiness conduct.
• Sodexo Speaks Up offers Sodexo employees and partners a confidential way to report activities or behaviors that are contrary to our Code of Conduct or illegal. All reports will be carefully reviewed by Sodexo.