No Tolerance Policy

If at any time JPMS learns that any vendor who we do business with is actively involved or associated with any of the below Zero Tolerance issues, THE FACILITY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DEACTIVATED from our system and removed from our approved vendor list.

  • Deliberate and ongoing human rights violations.
  • Child labor including the worst forms of child labor (slavery, forced labor, trafficking, serfdom, debt bondage, prostitution, pornography, work that involves children in illicit activity, or work that is likely to harm the child physically or morally).
  • Forced labor (bonded labor, not allowing workers to leave at their own will, forced to work overtime).
  • Human Trafficking/ Modern Day Slavery.
  • Inhumane treatment (use of threats of physical harm or extreme intimidation, corporal punishment, mental or physical coercion).
  • Unethical actions that encourage auditor(s) to compromise their integrity, such as bribing an auditor or an JPMS employee.
  • Engages in animal testing or uses ingredients that have been tested on animals or engages in any other form of animal cruelty or mistreatment.
  • Threatening physical harm towards the audit team or the JPMS employee.
  • False representation of certificate, certification, or audit report (i.e., altered, or fake certificates or reports).
  • False representation of production processes (i.e., hiding full/partial production floors and/or processes from auditor).
  • Knowingly sourcing materials or products from the Xinjiang region of China per US legislation.
  • Knowingly dumping untreated wastewater into local rivers and other ecosystems.
  • Unauthorized subcontracting.