Operations and suppliers with freedom-of-association risk
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Operations and suppliers where workers' freedom-of-association or collective-bargaining rights may be violated or at significant risk under a declared assessment, preserved by type, geography, worker population and support measures without converting the risk assessment into an incidence claim.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Freedom-of-association risk-assessment records
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period or measurement date declared by the source method
- Aggregation
- Do not sum or arithmetically average reported percentages, rates, ratios, or averages; consolidate only from compatible component observations under a disclosed method.
- Pillar
- Social
- Topic
- Value-chain human rights and due diligence
- Controlled domain
- Human rights
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Risk-topic, operation/supplier and geography views are parallel and non-additive. Workers, operations and suppliers are not interchangeable denominators. Counts are added only across mutually exclusive, deduplicated entities with the same method and period.
Cross-library identity
Library mappings and variants
These links compare quantity, population, boundary, period, unit, denominator, aggregation, dimensions, and method edition. Partial relationships are navigation aids only and never authorize observation reuse.
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Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
GRI Standards
- Publisher
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Edition
- 2016 edition
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- effective date and rights PDF pp1-2; Disclosure 407-1 p8
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Freedom-of-association risk-assessment records
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period or measurement date declared by the source method
Unit meaning: One unit is one operation or supplier and geography assessed under a declared rights-risk method; it is not an incident or affected-worker count.
Table fields and units
- Source profile and edition
- Operation or supplier
- Supplier tier
- Operation or supplier type
- Site
- Reported value
- Freedom-of-association risk-assessment records
- Measurement-source edition
- Assurance status
Published dimensions
- Source profile and edition.
- Operation or supplier.
- Supplier tier.
- Operation or supplier type.
- Site.
- Country, region or other geography.
- Worker population.
- Freedom of association, collective bargaining or combined risk topic.
- Risk status.
- Assessment method, evidence sources and threshold.
- Relevant legal/context note without country-quality ranking.
- Assessment date.
- Measure type and period.
- Reporting boundary.
- Source and assurance status.
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaPopulate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026
GRI 407: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining 2016
- Publisher
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Edition
- 2016 edition
- Locator
- effective date and rights PDF pp1-2; Disclosure 407-1 p8
Supports: Supports the measurement definition, boundary, and source-reported fields for Operations and suppliers with freedom-of-association risk.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: GRI 407: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining 2016 — 2016 edition. Retain the exact source edition on every observation; later editions require a separate method profile.
- Source profile and edition.
- Operation or supplier.
- Supplier tier.
- Operation or supplier type.
- Site.
- Country, region or other geography.
- Worker population.
- Freedom of association, collective bargaining or combined risk topic.
- Retain the exact measurement-source edition with every observation.
- One unit is one operation or supplier and geography assessed under a declared rights-risk method; it is not an incident or affected-worker count.
Record-specific limitations
- Legal restrictions, enforcement, industrial relations and worker voice vary by context.
- Supplier visibility can be incomplete. A risk assessment is not a judgment on a national legal system, proof of a violation, collective-bargaining coverage or union membership.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.