Principle 04 of 8
Fairness
Treat people equally, do not discriminate, and keep services accessible.
Protects
Customers, applicants, workers
Why it matters
Access to credit, housing, work, and services should not depend on who someone is or where they live.
Covers
Automated and human decisions about people (6.1–6.3, 6.5), and access, equity, and discrimination (Category 9).
Practices that break it
26 subsections · 124 practices
1.5Loyalty Penalty & Incumbency Pricing+ Honesty5
1.7Predatory Lending & Consumer Finance+ Care9
2.5Forced Bundling & Tying+ Autonomy4
2.7Contract Imbalance+ Autonomy6
4.7Sensitive-Attribute Inference+ Privacy5
5.4Algorithmic Decision Opacity+ Accountability4
6.1Bias in Critical Decisions7
6.2Automated Termination & Deactivation+ Accountability4
6.3Algorithmic Wage & Earnings Manipulation+ Responsibility4
6.5Algorithmic Content Suppression4
9.1Service Desert Creation4
9.2Algorithmic Discrimination in Targeting & Decisioning5
9.3Source-of-Income & Demographic Discrimination4
9.4Accessibility (ADA / WCAG) Failures7
9.5Language Access Barriers4
9.6Administrative Burden as Exclusion6
9.7Cultural Appropriation & Disrespect+ Responsibility6
9.8Indigenous Rights Violations+ Responsibility4
9.9Paywalling Public-Interest / Critical Information4
10.2Predatory Targeting of Financial Distress+ Care4
11.1Worker Misclassification+ Responsibility5
11.13Pay Disparity & Discrimination+ Responsibility2
12.7Monopoly Rent Extraction+ Responsibility7
12.9Merchant / Seller Exploitation+ Responsibility4
13.6Supplier Squeeze & Contract Abuse+ Responsibility3
14.4Environmental Justice Siting+ Responsibility3
The same principle, across industries
Every practice above, as it reads in the catalog. Numbers link to the standard.
1.5 Loyalty Penalty & Incumbency Pricing · 5 practices
Fairness+ Honesty
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5.1 | Price Creep | Gradual, repeated price increases above inflation, exploiting customer inertia and switching costs. | SaaS, streaming, insurance, mobile carriers, cleaning services |
| 1.5.2 | Loyalty Penalty | Charging long-term customers more than new customers for identical coverage or service. | Insurance, mobile carriers, energy utilities |
| 1.5.3 | Teaser-Rate Trap | Offering low introductory pricing that escalates dramatically after the first renewal cycle. | Insurance, mobile carriers, cosmetics (subscription), gym memberships |
| 1.5.4 | Auto-Renewal Price Hike | Renewing a subscription at a higher price than the prior term without explicit consent or prominent advance notice. | Cloud/SaaS, streaming, cybersecurity, fitness, dating, telecom |
| 1.5.5 | Mile / Point Devaluation | Unilaterally reducing the value, redemption availability, or expiration window of accumulated loyalty points or miles. | Airlines, hotels, retail loyalty programs, credit-card rewards |
1.7 Predatory Lending & Consumer Finance · 9 practices
Fairness+ Care
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.1 | Overdraft Reordering | Processing transactions largest-first to maximize overdraft fees, cascading charges from small purchases. | Financial services |
| 1.7.2 | Payday-Loan / Refund-Advance Trap | Offering short-term loans at effective APRs above 100–300%, designed for rollover rather than repayment, often disguised as "instant refunds." | Financial services, tax preparation |
| 1.7.3 | Penalty-APR Weaponization | Applying penalty rates to entire balances after a single late payment, including new purchases. | Financial services |
| 1.7.4 | Minimum-Payment Illusion | Displaying minimum payments prominently while burying total interest cost and time-to-payoff. | Financial services, retail credit |
| 1.7.5 | Negative-Equity Rolling | Rolling negative equity from a previous loan into a new loan without clearly disclosing the increased total obligation. | Automotive |
| 1.7.6 | Debt-Trap Lending | Extending credit, leases, or input loans with terms designed to create perpetual financial dependency. | Agriculture (farmer debt), cannabis (grower lending), debt collection, prison commissary |
| 1.7.7 | Refund-Advance APR Concealment | Marketing refund anticipation loans as "instant refunds" while obscuring effective interest rates that often exceed 100% APR. | Tax preparation |
| 1.7.8 | Pre-Need Investment Misrepresentation | Marketing pre-paid funeral or cemetery products as appreciating financial investments rather than prepaid services. | Funeral & death care |
| 1.7.9 | Payment-Plan Predatory Terms | Offering high-interest installment plans for essential expenditures without disclosing total interest paid. | Veterinary, dental, healthcare, mental health |
2.5 Forced Bundling & Tying · 4 practices
Fairness+ Autonomy
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5.1 | Tying of Unwanted Products | Requiring purchase of unrelated products or services as a condition of obtaining the desired one. | Insurance, financial services, e-commerce, agriculture (seed-herbicide bundling) |
| 2.5.2 | Mandatory Bundle Pricing | Offering only bundled packages that mix essential and optional items so individual costs cannot be compared. | Funeral services, wedding planning, event ticketing, cable/internet |
| 2.5.3 | Bundle Obfuscation | Bundling multiple services so individual pricing and partial cancellation are obscured. | Streaming, telecom |
| 2.5.4 | Cloud-Service Bundling | Bundling infrastructure, platform, and SaaS products to foreclose competitors of any single layer. | Cloud/SaaS |
2.7 Contract Imbalance · 6 practices
Fairness+ Autonomy
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7.1 | Unilateral Contract Changes | Modifying agreement terms (commission, fees, scope) with minimal notice, forcing take-it-or-leave-it acceptance. | E-commerce platforms, food delivery, gig economy, app stores |
| 2.7.2 | Force-Majeure Asymmetry | Drafting force-majeure clauses that protect the vendor but not the customer. | Wedding planning, event venues, hospitality |
| 2.7.3 | Punitive Cancellation Penalty | Imposing cancellation penalties disproportionate to actual lost revenue. | Wedding, hospitality, real estate, fitness |
| 2.7.4 | Non-Refundable Trap | Defaulting to non-refundable bookings while making refundable options hard to find or significantly more expensive. | Hospitality, travel, ticketing |
| 2.7.5 | Concession Clawback | Offering "first month free" promotions whose cost is recovered through inflated base rent or fees over the lease term. | Real estate |
| 2.7.6 | Lien Threats | Filing or threatening mechanic's liens to coerce payment for disputed or incomplete work. | Construction, plumbing, home services |
4.7 Sensitive-Attribute Inference · 5 practices
Fairness+ Privacy
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7.1 | Mental-Health Inference for Targeting | Inferring depression, anxiety, grief, or emotional vulnerability from posting patterns and using it for ad targeting or feature manipulation. | Social media, advertising |
| 4.7.2 | Pregnancy / Health-Condition Inference | Inferring pregnancy, chronic illness, or health condition from browsing behavior for targeting. | Digital advertising, retail, insurance |
| 4.7.3 | Sexual-Orientation Inference / Disclosure | Inferring or exposing sexual orientation through ad targeting or data sharing without explicit consent, creating outing risk. | Dating, social media, advertising |
| 4.7.4 | Financial-Distress Inference | Identifying financially vulnerable users for predatory ad targeting (high-interest loans, debt-relief schemes). | Digital advertising, financial services |
| 4.7.5 | Emotion-Recognition Pseudoscience | Deploying affect-detection systems for hiring, security, or border control as if scientifically validated. | AI, HR/recruitment, government |
5.4 Algorithmic Decision Opacity · 4 practices
Fairness+ Accountability
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4.1 | Black-Box Decisioning | Using AI-driven scoring for credit, insurance, hiring, or benefits decisions without disclosing factors or allowing appeal. | Financial services, insurance, HR/recruitment, government |
| 5.4.2 | Adverse-Action Notice Inadequacy | Providing vague adverse-action explanations that fail to identify the specific factor or report item that drove denial. | Credit reporting, financial services |
| 5.4.3 | Hidden Attractiveness / Desirability Scoring | Assigning users internal desirability or risk scores based on observed behavior without disclosure. | Dating, gig economy, ride-hailing |
| 5.4.4 | Score Opacity | Providing a credit, risk, or behavioral score without explaining how specific behaviors affect it, preventing informed improvement. | Credit reporting, insurance, gig economy |
6.1 Bias in Critical Decisions · 7 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1.1 | Discriminatory Training Data | Building decision systems on historically biased datasets without auditing or mitigation, perpetuating discrimination in hiring, lending, or law enforcement. | AI, HR/recruitment, credit reporting, insurance, healthcare |
| 6.1.2 | Proxy Discrimination | Using seemingly neutral inputs (ZIP code, occupation, shopping patterns) that correlate with race, income, or other protected attributes to set rates or scores. | Insurance, credit reporting, financial services |
| 6.1.3 | Algorithmic Triage Bias | Deploying clinical AI tools trained on non-representative populations, producing disparate care allocation. | Healthcare, mental health |
| 6.1.4 | Predictive Policing Bias | Deploying crime-prediction systems trained on biased policing data, directing over-policing to already-targeted communities. | AI, government, surveillance technology |
| 6.1.5 | Therapist-Matching Bias | Algorithmic matching that systematically steers marginalized patients to less experienced or lower-rated providers. | Mental health |
| 6.1.6 | Recommendation Pop-Bias | Recommendation systems that reinforce already-dominant artists, products, or content, suppressing emerging or underrepresented voices. | Music, podcasting, e-commerce |
| 6.1.7 | Facial-Recognition Bias | Deploying facial recognition with documented demographic error disparities, leading to wrongful identification. | Surveillance technology, law enforcement |
6.2 Automated Termination & Deactivation · 4 practices
Fairness+ Accountability
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2.1 | Algorithmic Deactivation Without Appeal | Terminating or suspending worker accounts based on automated metrics (ratings, acceptance rates, fraud signals) without human review or meaningful appeal. | Ride-hailing, food delivery, freelance/gig, e-commerce sellers |
| 6.2.2 | Account Suspension Without Recourse | Suspending seller, creator, or user accounts without transparent explanation or human review, freezing inventory or funds. | E-commerce platforms, social media, podcasting |
| 6.2.3 | Debanking Without Transparency | Closing financial accounts based on internal risk models without specific reasons or remediation paths. | Financial services |
| 6.2.4 | Return-Fraud Algorithmic Banning | Flagging or banning loyal customers for "return fraud" via opaque thresholds without human review or appeal. | E-commerce |
6.3 Algorithmic Wage & Earnings Manipulation · 4 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3.1 | Algorithmic Pay Adjustment | Using opaque algorithms to adjust per-task pay based on predicted worker acceptance, systematically suppressing earnings. | Ride-hailing, food delivery, freelance/gig |
| 6.3.2 | Surge / Demand Capture | Implementing surge pricing where the platform captures a disproportionate share of the increase rather than passing it to workers. | Ride-hailing, freelance |
| 6.3.3 | Behavioral-Nudge Penalties | Designing penalty structures (acceptance rate, response time) that coerce workers into unsafe or undesirable conditions. | Gig economy, ride-hailing, food delivery |
| 6.3.4 | Opaque Worker Reliability Scores | Internal performance/reliability scores that gate placement opportunities without disclosed criteria or appeal. | Staffing/temp, gig economy, freelance |
6.5 Algorithmic Content Suppression · 4 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5.1 | Self-Preferencing on Owned Platforms | Designing recommendation, search, or marketplace algorithms to prefer the platform's own products or content over superior third-party alternatives. | Search engines, e-commerce, streaming, music, AI platforms |
| 6.5.2 | Competitor Content Suppression | Deliberately reducing visibility of content from competing services or platforms in organic results. | Search engines, social media |
| 6.5.3 | Pay-for-Visibility | Reducing organic reach to force creators or sellers into paid promotion or boosted posts. | Social media, food delivery, e-commerce |
| 6.5.4 | Engagement-Optimized Matching Over Compatibility | Ranking matches, trades, or pairings to maximize platform engagement rather than user-stated goals. | Dating, job platforms |
9.1 Service Desert Creation · 4 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.1.1 | Service Desert Creation | Consolidating facilities or service in affluent areas while withdrawing from rural, low-income, or minority areas. | Healthcare, dental, veterinary, banking, grocery, telecom, mobile carriers, transit, government |
| 9.1.2 | Insurance Redlining by Non-Renewal | Systematically non-renewing policies in areas with higher claim rates, creating insurance deserts. | Insurance |
| 9.1.3 | Last-Mile / Feeder Cuts | Discontinuing feeder routes and last-mile connections that complete trips for suburban or rural riders. | Public transit |
| 9.1.4 | Childcare Geographic Redlining | Concentrating facilities in affluent areas while avoiding lower-income neighborhoods, creating childcare deserts. | Childcare/daycare |
9.2 Algorithmic Discrimination in Targeting & Decisioning · 5 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2.1 | Digital Redlining | Using algorithms to show or hide listings based on neighborhood demographics. | Real estate, advertising |
| 9.2.2 | Steering | Directing buyers or renters toward or away from neighborhoods based on protected-class characteristics. | Real estate |
| 9.2.3 | Housing & Employment Ad Discrimination | Allowing exclusion targeting (zip code, race proxy, income) on housing, credit, or employment ads. | Digital advertising, social media |
| 9.2.4 | Reverse Redlining | Targeting minority neighborhoods for predatory loan products with unfavorable terms. | Real estate, financial services |
| 9.2.5 | Appraisal Manipulation | Systematically undervaluing properties in minority neighborhoods, depressing wealth-building. | Real estate |
9.3 Source-of-Income & Demographic Discrimination · 4 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3.1 | Source-of-Income Discrimination | Refusing tenants or customers who use vouchers or subsidies despite ability to pay. | Real estate |
| 9.3.2 | Subsidy / Medicaid Refusal | Declining to accept government subsidy programs or creating administrative barriers for subsidized clients. | Childcare, dental, healthcare |
| 9.3.3 | Funeral Pricing by Demographic | Charging higher prices or providing inferior services based on race, ethnicity, neighborhood, or perceived class. | Funeral & death care |
| 9.3.4 | Gendered Pricing | Pricing identical or substantially similar products differently based on gendered marketing or packaging. | Personal care, dating (subscriptions), fashion |
9.4 Accessibility (ADA / WCAG) Failures · 7 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.4.1 | Digital Accessibility Failures | Sites and apps that do not meet WCAG standards, preventing screen-reader, keyboard, or alternate-input use. | Education, streaming, podcasting, government, e-commerce, search |
| 9.4.2 | Physical Accessibility Failures | Failing to maintain elevators, ramps, or lift equipment for advertised routes; under-providing accessible seating. | Public transit, ticketing/venues, sports |
| 9.4.3 | Disability Accommodation Failure on Flights | Damaged mobility aids, inadequate accommodations, or inconsistent service for passengers with disabilities. | Airlines |
| 9.4.4 | Accessibility Misrepresentation in Listings | Advertising units as accessible that do not meet ADA or local accessibility codes. | Real estate |
| 9.4.5 | Captioning / Audio-Description Gaps | Missing or delayed captions and audio descriptions; charging premium tiers for accessibility features. | Streaming, film/television, podcasting |
| 9.4.6 | DRM Blocking Assistive Technology | Applying DRM that prevents screen readers, text-to-speech, or accessibility tools from functioning. | Publishing, gaming |
| 9.4.7 | Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle Delays | Delaying compliance with accessibility requirements while claiming "innovation" flexibility. | Ride-hailing |
9.5 Language Access Barriers · 4 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.5.1 | Language Access Failures | Providing critical forms, notices, or services only in one language in multilingual communities. | Government, public transit, water utilities, healthcare |
| 9.5.2 | Language-Barrier Exploitation in Tax Prep | Inadequate multilingual support while charging premium prices for non-English speakers, or using complex English-only agreements. | Tax preparation |
| 9.5.3 | Boil-Notice Communication Gaps | Issuing safety notices through channels that do not reach non-English speakers, elderly, or non-digital residents. | Water utilities |
| 9.5.4 | Non-English Interpretation Absence in Legal Aid | Failing to offer interpretation or translated materials, excluding non-English speakers from legal representation. | Legal services |
9.6 Administrative Burden as Exclusion · 6 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.6.1 | Means-Testing Complexity | Designing benefit applications with excessive documentation requirements that function as access barriers. | Government services, energy assistance, low-income utility programs |
| 9.6.2 | Discount-Program Friction | Making reduced-fare or discount programs (seniors, students, low-income) difficult to apply for and maintain. | Public transit |
| 9.6.3 | Special-Needs Exclusion | Refusing enrollment or providing inadequate accommodations for children with disabilities or special needs. | Childcare, education |
| 9.6.4 | Schedule Rigidity | Requiring full-time enrollment without offering part-time or flexible schedules, excluding families that need partial care. | Childcare, education |
| 9.6.5 | Pediatric Underinvestment | Allocating minimal appointment slots or inadequate staff for children, particularly under public insurance. | Dental, healthcare |
| 9.6.6 | Specialist-Referral Barriers | Failing to establish referral pathways for low-income patients beyond general-practice capability. | Dental, mental health |
9.7 Cultural Appropriation & Disrespect · 6 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.7.1 | Cultural Appropriation in Branding | Co-opting traditional practices, designs, or aesthetics from marginalized communities without attribution or compensation. | Beauty, fashion, film/television, travel |
| 9.7.2 | Religious Accommodation Failure | Failing to accommodate religious, cultural, or spiritual practices in service delivery, or actively obstructing them. | Funeral services, healthcare |
| 9.7.3 | Cultural-Practice Disrespect | Dismissing, ridiculing, or refusing to accommodate culturally specific mourning, body-preparation, or disposition preferences. | Funeral & death care |
| 9.7.4 | Sacred-Site Tourism Without Consent | Operating tours to indigenous or sacred sites without community permission or benefit sharing. | Travel/tourism |
| 9.7.5 | Cultural Commodification | Packaging sacred ceremonies, traditional dress, or rituals as entertainment for tourists. | Travel/tourism |
| 9.7.6 | Indigent Burial Neglect | Providing minimal or disrespectful services for indigent or unclaimed remains. | Funeral & death care |
9.8 Indigenous Rights Violations · 4 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8.1 | FPIC Violation | Proceeding with extraction, infrastructure, or development on indigenous lands without free, prior, and informed consent. | Mining, oil/gas, renewable energy |
| 9.8.2 | Cultural Heritage Destruction | Destroying or desecrating cultural and archaeological sites during extraction or development. | Mining, construction |
| 9.8.3 | Forced Displacement | Acquiring land through coercion, inadequate compensation, or legal pressure to displace communities. | Oil/gas, mining, real estate, renewable energy |
| 9.8.4 | Community Benefit Agreement Failure | Failing to deliver promised community investments, jobs, or infrastructure after project approval. | Renewable energy, oil/gas, mining, public transit, waste management |
9.9 Paywalling Public-Interest / Critical Information · 4 practices
Fairness
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.9.1 | Public-Interest Paywall | Placing critical reporting on emergencies, public health, or elections behind paywalls that block affected communities. | Media/journalism, podcasting |
| 9.9.2 | Health-Emergency AI Paywalling | Placing AI answers for health, legal, or emergency queries behind a paywall. | Search engines, AI assistants |
| 9.9.3 | Taxpayer-Funded Research Paywall | Charging exorbitant subscription fees for access to research funded by public grants. | Academic publishing |
| 9.9.4 | Library Lending Restriction | Restrictive ebook licensing — checkout limits, per-use fees, or arbitrary expiration — that undermines libraries. | Publishing |
10.2 Predatory Targeting of Financial Distress · 4 practices
Fairness+ Care
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.2.1 | Subprime / Distress Targeting | Marketing high-interest or predatory financial products specifically to low-income, minority, or financially distressed communities. | Financial services, advertising |
| 10.2.2 | Refund-Time Credit-Product Targeting | Marketing refund advances or high-fee financial products at moments of maximum financial need. | Tax preparation |
| 10.2.3 | Financial-Product Targeting from Tax Returns | Using tax-return data to target clients for high-interest loans, refund advances, or other financial products. | Tax preparation |
| 10.2.4 | Family-Support Fee Extraction | Imposing excessive fees on money transfers to incarcerated relatives. | Prison/corrections |
11.1 Worker Misclassification · 5 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1.1 | Forced Contractor Status | Classifying workers as independent contractors when the role meets the legal definition of employment. | Ride-hailing, food delivery, gig economy, cleaning, construction, plumbing, home services, logistics, gaming, oil/gas, waste management, wedding |
| 11.1.2 | Permanent-Temp Classification | Assigning workers to indefinite temporary or contract status to avoid benefits and protections. | Staffing/temp agencies, gaming |
| 11.1.3 | Perma-Lancer Loops | Cycling workers through successive contract terms or agencies to prevent conversion to permanent. | Staffing/temp |
| 11.1.4 | Misclassification Feedback Loop | Using industry-wide misclassification as a benchmark, pressuring competitors to follow. | Gig economy |
| 11.1.5 | Buyout-Fee Suppression | Setting prohibitively high temp-to-perm conversion fees to discourage clients from hiring directly. | Staffing/temp |
11.13 Pay Disparity & Discrimination · 2 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.13.1 | Demographic Pay Gaps | Maintaining persistent pay disparities for women, people of color, or LGBTQ+ workers compared to peers in equivalent roles. | Film/television, internal company |
| 11.13.2 | Salary History Exploitation | Using prior salary to set compensation, perpetuating historical pay gaps. | HR/recruitment |
12.7 Monopoly Rent Extraction · 7 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.7.1 | Commission / Fee Escalation | Progressively increasing platform commissions, license fees, or per-seat pricing without proportional value, exploiting switching costs. | Cloud/SaaS, food delivery, e-commerce, mobile carriers |
| 12.7.2 | Forced Advertising Participation | Making seller advertising mandatory through reduced visibility for non-participants. | E-commerce |
| 12.7.3 | Search Ranking Pay-to-Play | Requiring sellers to purchase advertising for organic search visibility, blurring ads and results. | E-commerce, food delivery |
| 12.7.4 | Forced Promotion Participation | Enrolling restaurants in discount or free-delivery campaigns without consent, with cost absorbed from margins. | Food delivery |
| 12.7.5 | Algorithmic Discovery Pay-to-Play | Requiring payment for favorable algorithmic placement, chart positioning, or editorial featuring. | Podcasting, music |
| 12.7.6 | Phone Service Monopoly in Captive Markets | Granting exclusive telecom contracts that eliminate competition. | Prison/corrections |
| 12.7.7 | Publisher Dependency Exploitation | Leveraging traffic dominance to impose unilateral terms on publishers (revenue share, format, content access). | Search engines |
12.9 Merchant / Seller Exploitation · 4 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.9.1 | Seller Data Extraction | Requiring sellers to share detailed product, pricing, and sales data that the platform then uses to compete against them. | E-commerce |
| 12.9.2 | Restaurant Customer-Data Hoarding | Preventing restaurants from accessing customer data for orders placed through the platform. | Food delivery |
| 12.9.3 | Supplier Squeeze | Using market power to impose below-sustainability prices on farmers, suppliers, or smaller producers. | Grocery, food/beverage manufacturing |
| 12.9.4 | Subcontractor Non-Payment | Withholding or delaying subcontractor payments to improve cash flow, using retainage as leverage. | Construction |
13.6 Supplier Squeeze & Contract Abuse · 3 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.6.1 | Below-Sustainability Pricing on Suppliers | Imposing prices on farmers or raw-material suppliers that drive labor abuse and environmental shortcuts. | Food manufacturing, grocery, fashion |
| 13.6.2 | Contract Farming Exploitation | Imposing one-sided contracts that transfer production risk to farmers while locking in below-market purchase prices. | Agriculture |
| 13.6.3 | Unfair Trade Practices | Bypassing fair-trade premiums, reneging on contracts, or imposing unilateral price changes on smallholder producers. | Food manufacturing |
14.4 Environmental Justice Siting · 3 practices
Fairness+ Responsibility
| § | Practice | Description | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.4.1 | Polluting-Facility Siting in Vulnerable Communities | Concentrating new infrastructure (power plants, substations, pipelines, transfer stations, landfills) in low-income or minority communities. | Energy utilities, waste management, public transit, oil/gas |
| 14.4.2 | Diesel Bus Retention in Polluted Areas | Continuing to operate diesel buses in already-burdened communities while electrifying affluent routes. | Public transit |
| 14.4.3 | NIMBY Exploitation | Siting renewable or other projects in low-income or minority communities to avoid affluent opposition. | Renewable energy |