ECONOMY

 Lidl’s strategy focuses on ensuring compliance with human rights and environmental due diligence throughout the entire value chain. The company’s goal is to create a sustainable future by taking into account the social and environmental impacts of its operations.

The strategy is structured around three main pillars:

1. Labour: Lidl ensures equal treatment and equal opportunities for all employees, avoiding any form of discrimination. It prohibits forced labour, modern slavery, and child labour, while guaranteeing sustainable wages and working hours in accordance with applicable laws. It upholds the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, while also protecting the health and safety of workers.
2. Environment: Lidl ensures compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations, preventing soil damage, air pollution, noise pollution, and excessive water consumption. It includes laws for the protection of the environment and natural resources, as well as the management of environmental impacts.
3. Compliance: Lidl implements measures to enforce the Code of Conduct across the supply chain, including reporting, corrective actions, audits, and grievance mechanisms. A comprehensive system for managing deviations from the Code takes risk into account to ensure that all requirements are met.

Lidl’s aim is to strengthen a shared understanding across the company regarding social and environmental standards, ensuring alignment with international guidelines and principles. The company seeks to promote human rights, fair wages, and safe working conditions, offering online training to support awareness and compliance.

Lidl Hellas’ strategy on human rights and environmental due diligence is aimed at a broad range of stakeholders. Primarily, it targets the company’s employees and those of its partners, ensuring equal treatment, safety, and decent working conditions. It also addresses business partners across the supply chain, setting clear expectations for compliance with social and environmental standards. Finally, it concerns consumers, who are increasingly interested in the ethical and sustainable practices of the companies they support.                     

The initiative is of a continuous nature. It is not a time-limited project but a long-term strategic commitment by Lidl, which evolves and strengthens over time in line with international developments and growing demands for sustainability and accountability.