Principle 08 of 8

Responsibility

Workers, suppliers, communities, competitors, and the environment count too.

Protects

Workers, suppliers, communities, competitors, the environment

Why it matters

A business can be honest with every customer and still do harm to the people who make its products, the market it competes in, or the place it operates.

Covers

Worker and workplace conduct (Category 11), anti-competitive behavior (Category 12), supply chains (Category 13), and environmental conduct (Category 14).

Practices that break it

53 subsections · 285 practices

4.6Worker / Workplace Surveillance+ Privacy7 6.3Algorithmic Wage & Earnings Manipulation+ Fairness4 7.3Greenwashing & Sustainability Misrepresentation+ Honesty10 8.2Planned Obsolescence+ Safety5 9.7Cultural Appropriation & Disrespect+ Fairness6 9.8Indigenous Rights Violations+ Fairness4 10.7Migrant & Visa-Dependent Coercion+ Care5 10.8Incarcerated Population Exploitation+ Care6 11.1Worker Misclassification+ Fairness5 11.2Wage Theft9 11.3Unpaid Overtime & Crunch5 11.4Benefits Denial4 11.5Schedule Instability & Algorithmic Scheduling3 11.6Hazardous Conditions & PPE+ Safety11 11.7Safety Incident Underreporting+ Safety6 11.8Retaliation Against Reporting+ Accountability4 11.9Non-Compete Overreach+ Autonomy4 11.10Forced Labor & Child Labor in Operations4 11.11Mass Layoffs After Profit & Disposable Workforce4 11.12Performance & Quality Management Abuse+ Care3 11.13Pay Disparity & Discrimination+ Fairness2 11.14Moderator & Worker Trauma+ Care5 11.15Unpaid Labor & Career-Path Exploitation8 11.16Restrictions on Career Mobility+ Autonomy4 12.1Predatory Pricing & Cross-Subsidy2 12.2Acquisitions to Kill Competition4 12.3Self-Preferencing on Owned Platforms+ Honesty6 12.4Tying & Forced Bundling+ Autonomy4 12.5Exclusive Dealing & Foreclosure4 12.6Bid Rigging & Collusion6 12.7Monopoly Rent Extraction+ Fairness7 12.8Open-Source / Standards Manipulation9 12.9Merchant / Seller Exploitation+ Fairness4 13.1Supply Chain Opacity+ Honesty7 13.2Forced & Child Labor in Supply Chain9 13.3Animal Cruelty in Supply Chain4 13.4Counterfeit & Sanctioned Goods+ Honesty4 13.5Deforestation-Linked Sourcing2 13.6Supplier Squeeze & Contract Abuse+ Fairness3 14.1Emission Underreporting & Concealment+ Honesty8 14.2Carbon-Offset Greenwashing+ Honesty5 14.3Pollution Concealment+ Honesty10 14.4Environmental Justice Siting+ Fairness3 14.5Habitat & Ecosystem Destruction9 14.6Microplastics & Persistent Pollutants6 14.7E-Waste & Disposal8 14.8Pesticide & Antibiotic Overuse4 14.9Site Abandonment & Stranded Liabilities+ Accountability6 14.10Catastrophic Risk Concealment+ Safety5 14.11Lobbying Against Environmental Regulation+ Accountability7 14.12Resource Hoarding3 15.1Whistleblower Suppression+ Accountability4 15.9Strategic Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring+ Accountability4

The same principle, across industries

Every practice above, as it reads in the catalog. Numbers link to the standard.

4.6 Worker / Workplace Surveillance · 7 practices

Responsibility + Privacy

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
4.6.1	Keystroke / Screen Monitoring	Recording keystrokes, screenshots, or screen contents continuously or at random intervals without meaningful notice.	Internal company ethics, surveillance technology, staffing/temp agencies
4.6.2	Behavioral Analytics on Staff	Using AI to analyze employee communication patterns, tone, sentiment, or social graph to score, rank, or flag workers.	Internal company ethics, HR
4.6.3	Productivity Score Quantification	Assigning numerical scores based on mouse movement, idle time, or app switching, then using them in performance, termination, or promotion decisions.	Internal company ethics, surveillance technology
4.6.4	Covert Meeting Recording	Recording, transcribing, or analyzing internal meetings or calls without the contemporaneous knowledge of all participants.	Internal company ethics
4.6.5	Personal-Device MDM Intrusion	Requiring monitoring or MDM software on personally owned devices as a condition of employment.	Internal company ethics
4.6.6	Union-Busting Surveillance	Tools or services designed to identify, track, or undermine labor organizing.	Surveillance technology
4.6.7	AI-Driven Worker Monitoring	Tracking keystrokes, bathroom breaks, movement, or productivity to create constant surveillance environments.	AI vendors, warehousing, call centers, ride-hailing, food delivery

6.3 Algorithmic Wage & Earnings Manipulation · 4 practices

Responsibility + Fairness

§	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

7.3 Greenwashing & Sustainability Misrepresentation · 10 practices

Responsibility + Honesty

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
7.3.1	Vague Eco Claims	Marketing products as "natural," "clean," "eco-friendly," "sustainable," or "non-toxic" without standardized definitions or verification.	Beauty, food, fashion, baby products, cleaning, personal care
7.3.2	Carbon-Offset Greenwashing	Claiming carbon neutrality through low-quality, non-additional, or unverifiable offsets while absolute emissions continue to rise.	AI, crypto, airlines, oil/gas, logistics, shipping, travel
7.3.3	REC / Renewable Double-Counting	Counting the same renewable certificates toward both regulatory compliance and voluntary customer claims.	Energy utilities, renewable energy, crypto
7.3.4	Greenhouse-Pledge Without Plan	Announcing distant net-zero or sustainability targets without interim milestones, accountability, or capital allocation.	Renewable energy, oil/gas, food manufacturing
7.3.5	Deadstock Destruction	Incinerating or landfilling unsold inventory to protect brand prestige, while marketing sustainability.	Fashion, luxury goods
7.3.6	Recycling Program Greenwashing	Promoting take-back, refill, or recycling programs that divert minimal waste while claiming environmental leadership.	Beauty, home appliances, e-commerce, waste management
7.3.7	Process-Claim Inflation	Marketing as "artisanal," "small-batch," or "handcrafted" without defined standards or third-party verification.	Food, alcohol, beauty
7.3.8	Certification Logo Misuse	Displaying certifications (organic, non-GMO, humane, fair-trade) that have lapsed, are scoped narrowly, or come from shell certifiers.	Food, agriculture, beauty
7.3.9	Energy-Rating Manipulation	Configuring devices for testing conditions that do not reflect real-world energy consumption.	Home appliances, automotive
7.3.10	Cruelty-Free Misrepresentation	Using cruelty-free claims without independent verification, or selling in markets that require animal testing while claiming cruelty-free elsewhere.	Beauty, personal care

8.2 Planned Obsolescence · 5 practices

Responsibility + Safety

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
8.2.1	Limited-Lifespan Design	Engineering products with intentionally shortened lifespans through material or component choices.	Home appliances, electronics, consumer goods
8.2.2	Software-Driven Slowdown	Withholding firmware updates or intentionally slowing devices via software to render hardware obsolete.	Home appliances, smartphones
8.2.3	Feature Removal via OTA	Remotely removing or degrading features the customer already purchased.	Automotive, smart appliances, gaming
8.2.4	Cosmetic Redesign Obsolescence	Releasing cosmetic updates that render accessories, cases, or peripherals incompatible.	Home appliances, smartphones
8.2.5	Implantable / Critical-Device Lifespan Limits	Designing implantable or critical devices with unnecessarily limited lifespans.	Healthcare (medical devices)

9.7 Cultural Appropriation & Disrespect · 6 practices

Responsibility + Fairness

§	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

Responsibility + Fairness

§	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

10.7 Migrant & Visa-Dependent Coercion · 5 practices

Responsibility + Care

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
10.7.1	Visa-Dependent Worker Coercion	Recruiting workers under temporary visas with housing deductions, restricted mobility, or deportation threats if they complain.	Hospitality, agriculture, travel/tourism, defense
10.7.2	Document Confiscation	Confiscating documents, charging recruitment fees, or imposing terms that leave workers indebted.	Construction, agriculture, seafood
10.7.3	H1-B Cost-Arbitrage Staffing	Structuring staffing around visa-dependent workers unable to negotiate or leave.	Consulting
10.7.4	Undocumented Worker Threats	Employing undocumented workers at below-market wages with deportation threats if they report safety violations or wage theft.	Construction, home services
10.7.5	Migrant Recruitment-Fee Brokering	Hiring through labor brokers who charge fees, withhold wages, or impose contracts that create indebtedness.	Seafood, agriculture, construction

10.8 Incarcerated Population Exploitation · 6 practices

Responsibility + Care

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
10.8.1	Inmate Communication Cost Gouging	Charging far-above-market rates for phone, video, and messaging through exclusive provider contracts.	Prison/corrections
10.8.2	Commissary Price Inflation	Marking up essential goods (hygiene, food, clothing) above retail within facilities.	Prison/corrections
10.8.3	Forced Labor Below Minimum Wage	Assigning incarcerated workers to jobs paying far below minimum wage under threat of disciplinary action.	Prison/corrections
10.8.4	Inmate Medical Care Denial	Systematically understaffing medical units, delaying treatment, or denying specialist referrals.	Prison/corrections
10.8.5	Inmate Medication Cost Inflation	Charging above-market prices for prescriptions or substituting cheaper medications without clinical equivalence.	Prison/corrections
10.8.6	Family Location Tracking via Inmate Metadata	Using communication metadata to surveil, locate, or profile family members outside the facility.	Prison/corrections

11.1 Worker Misclassification · 5 practices

Responsibility + Fairness

§	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

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.2.1	Off-the-Clock Work	Requiring setup, travel, or cleanup tasks without pay.	Cleaning, construction, plumbing, retail
11.2.2	Tip Appropriation	Redirecting customer tips to base pay or platform fees rather than passing them to workers.	Food delivery, ride-hailing, hospitality
11.2.3	Tip Withholding	Collecting mandatory gratuities from clients but not distributing full amounts to staff.	Wedding planning, hospitality
11.2.4	Tip-Credit Exploitation	Using tip-credit provisions to pay below minimum wage while assigning non-tipped duties that dilute tip income.	Hospitality, travel/tourism
11.2.5	Markup Wage Theft	Charging clients significantly more than worker pay rate while concealing markup, appropriating earned wages.	Staffing/temp agencies
11.2.6	Piece-Rate Sub-Minimum-Wage	Setting piece-rate or per-job pay at levels resulting in sub-minimum-wage earnings for typical work speed.	Plumbing, agriculture, gig economy
11.2.7	Hidden Deductions	Subtracting uniform, background-check, training, or admin costs from paychecks without clear disclosure.	Staffing/temp
11.2.8	Wage Theft on Public Projects	Failing to pay prevailing wages, withholding final paychecks, or unauthorized deductions on taxpayer-funded projects.	Construction
11.2.9	Stream-Threshold Wage Theft	Withholding payment for streams below an arbitrary minimum threshold, pocketing revenue from millions of micro-plays by smaller artists.	Music industry

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.3.1	Overtime Denial	Requiring schedules above 40 hours while refusing overtime compensation.	Cleaning, construction, hospitality
11.3.2	Crunch Culture	Sustaining mandatory or culturally expected 60–100+ hour weeks for months before launch.	Gaming
11.3.3	Up-or-Out Burnout	Maintaining promotion systems that demand unsustainable hours, normalizing burnout.	Consulting, finance, law
11.3.4	Burnout-Industry Norm	Normalizing excessive hours, constant availability, and weekend work as industry expectations.	PR/marketing, consulting
11.3.5	Forced Dispatch / Coerced Driving	Pressuring drivers to operate beyond legal hours-of-service through dispatch practices.	Shipping/freight

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.4.1	Benefits Denial Through Misclassification	Structuring engagements to avoid health insurance, retirement, or paid leave.	Gig economy, ride-hailing, food delivery, freelance, staffing/temp
11.4.2	Benefits Two-Tier Denial	Excluding temp or contract workers from benefits available to permanent employees.	Staffing/temp
11.4.3	Benefit Stripping Post-Acquisition	Eliminating or reducing healthcare, retirement, or other benefits after acquiring portfolio companies.	Private equity
11.4.4	Pension Fund Underfunding	Reducing or suspending employer pension contributions to improve cash flow before exit.	Private equity

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.5.1	On-Call / Just-in-Time Scheduling	Publishing schedules with minimal notice, split shifts, or on-call requirements that prevent second jobs or childcare.	Hospitality, retail, fast food
11.5.2	Algorithmic Schedule Instability	Assigning unpredictable schedules that prevent financial or personal planning.	Gig economy, food delivery
11.5.3	Scheduling Practices Suppressing Wages	Schedules designed to keep workers below full-time hours or prevent reliable second employment.	Grocery, retail

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.6.1	PPE Cost Shifting to Workers	Requiring workers to purchase their own respirators, gloves, or protective clothing.	Cleaning, agriculture, pest control, chemical manufacturing
11.6.2	Hazardous Condition Exposure	Failing to provide protective equipment, shade, ventilation, or safe conditions for high-risk work.	Agriculture, cleaning, construction, mining
11.6.3	Chemical Exposure Non-Disclosure	Failing to inform workers about specific chemicals, exposure levels, or known health risks.	Chemical manufacturing, oil/gas, cleaning, pest control
11.6.4	Reproductive-Hazard Concealment	Failing to warn workers of documented reproductive hazards (mutagens, teratogens, endocrine disruptors).	Chemical manufacturing
11.6.5	Cancer-Cluster Non-Investigation	Declining to investigate or acknowledge elevated cancer rates among workers when internal data suggests facility-related causation.	Chemical manufacturing
11.6.6	Heat / Fatigue Risk Neglect	Assigning extended outdoor or extreme-temperature shifts without mandated rest or hydration.	Staffing/temp, agriculture, waste management
11.6.7	Black-Lung / Dust-Exposure Concealment	Suppressing or manipulating dust exposure data to avoid implementing required controls.	Mining
11.6.8	Fatigue-Risk Normalization	Scheduling that creates chronic fatigue in safety-critical operations without mitigation.	Oil/gas, airlines, transit, shipping
11.6.9	Pressure to Speed Causing Unsafe Driving	Unrealistic delivery time estimates and late-arrival penalties that incentivize reckless driving.	Food delivery, ride-hailing, shipping
11.6.10	Production Quotas Compromising Safety	Pick-and-pack or daily-job quotas that force workers to skip breaks or compromise safety.	Logistics, warehousing, pest control, shipping
11.6.11	Housekeeper Workload	Excessive room counts per shift with piece-rate pay that incentivizes skipping safety protocols.	Hospitality

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.7.1	OSHA Violation Concealment	Hiding or failing to report workplace injuries, OSHA violations, or hazardous conditions.	Construction, oil/gas
11.7.2	Injury Reporting Discouragement	Discouraging temp/contractor injury reporting through retaliation or quota penalties.	Staffing/temp, logistics, warehousing
11.7.3	Contractor-Labor Risk Shifting	Using contracted labor for the most hazardous operations to avoid direct employer liability and long-term health monitoring.	Oil/gas, mining, chemical manufacturing
11.7.4	Inadequate Worker Insurance	Providing minimal or no accident insurance for workers while on the job.	Food delivery, gig economy
11.7.5	Detention-Time Unpaid	Failing to compensate drivers for extended wait times at facilities beyond their control.	Shipping/freight
11.7.6	Equipment Injury Training Absence	Not training workers on safe operation of industrial cleaning, construction, or warehouse equipment.	Cleaning, construction

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.8.1	Retaliation Against Workers Reporting Safety	Penalizing workers who report safety violations through reduced hours, termination, or blacklisting.	Cleaning, childcare, construction, hospitality
11.8.2	Whistleblower Retaliation	Demoting, terminating, blacklisting, or otherwise retaliating against employees who report fraud, safety failures, or unethical practices.	Internal company ethics, defense, government, mining, accounting, healthcare, pharma
11.8.3	Security-Clearance Coercion	Using security-clearance requirements to suppress employee complaints or limit job mobility.	Defense
11.8.4	NDAs Silencing Misconduct	Using NDAs or separation agreements to prevent employees from speaking publicly about unethical practices, surveillance, or safety concerns.	Internal company ethics, consulting, PR/marketing

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.9.1	Overbroad Non-Compete	Imposing non-compete clauses that restrict career mobility beyond legitimate business interests.	Consulting, gaming, legal, music, mental health
11.9.2	Non-Compete on Low-Wage Workers	Imposing non-competes on hourly or low-wage workers to suppress turnover.	Private equity portfolio, staffing/temp
11.9.3	Multi-App Penalty	Penalizing or deactivating gig workers who work for competing platforms.	Food delivery, ride-hailing
11.9.4	Therapist Non-Compete	Enforcing non-competes that prevent therapists from continuing care with patients after leaving a platform.	Mental health

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.10.1	Forced Labor on Vessels / Sites	Using debt bondage, confiscated documents, or coercion to retain workers without freedom to leave.	Seafood, agriculture, hospitality
11.10.2	At-Sea / Remote Worker Abuse Concealment	Physical violence, food withholding, or confinement of workers far from oversight.	Seafood
11.10.3	Isolation as Intimidation	Deliberately keeping workers in remote settings to prevent contact with authorities or complaint filing.	Seafood
11.10.4	Child Labor in Operations / Supply Chain	Sourcing from operations that employ underage workers, or using subcontracting to obscure child-labor involvement.	Agriculture, fashion, mining, food

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.11.1	Layoffs After Profitable Launch	Terminating large portions of teams immediately after profitable launches to avoid sharing ongoing revenue.	Gaming
11.11.2	Mass Layoffs Post-Acquisition	Implementing significant workforce reductions immediately after acquisition to improve short-term financial metrics.	Private equity
11.11.3	Layoffs to Service Debt	Cutting workforce primarily to meet debt service obligations imposed by acquisition structure.	Private equity
11.11.4	Workforce Reduction Without Transition Support	Eliminating positions without adequate severance, retraining, or job placement assistance.	Private equity

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.12.1	Performance-Review Weaponization	Using opaque performance review processes to justify predetermined attrition rather than genuine development.	Consulting
11.12.2	Credit Suppression	Failing to provide references, performance documentation, or skill verification that would help workers transition.	Staffing/temp
11.12.3	Credit / Byline Omission	Removing or omitting developer or creator credits from shipped products or published work for departing or freelance workers.	Gaming, media/journalism, music

§	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

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.14.1	Moderator Mental-Health Neglect	Exposing content moderators to graphic, violent, or traumatic material without adequate support.	Social media
11.14.2	Data-Labeler Trauma	Outsourcing data labeling to workers exposed to traumatic content under poor conditions.	AI
11.14.3	Brain-Injury Concealment	Withholding or downplaying concussion diagnoses; pressuring athletes to return before recovery.	Sports/athletics, film/television (stunts)
11.14.4	Sexual-Assault Reporting Gaps	Failing to promptly report assaults to law enforcement; settling claims privately with NDAs.	Ride-hailing
11.14.5	Unsafe Working Hours	Scheduling shoots exceeding 14 hours, mandating turnaround under 8 hours.	Film/television

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.15.1	Unpaid-Internship Abuse	Using interns as free labor on billable client work without meaningful mentorship.	PR/marketing, consulting, film/television
11.15.2	Pitch-Work Without Compensation	Requiring extensive creative work as part of competitive pitches without compensating finalists.	PR/marketing
11.15.3	Freelancer Payment Delays	Systematically delaying payment to freelance creatives, consultants, or contractors beyond contract terms.	PR/marketing, media/journalism
11.15.4	Unpaid Travel / Setup Time	Not compensating workers for travel, vehicle preparation, or job-site setup while billing clients for it.	Plumbing, home services
11.15.5	Unpaid Professional Development	Requiring caregivers to complete continuing education on their own time without compensation.	Childcare, healthcare
11.15.6	Training Cost Shifting to Worker	Requiring workers to pay for certifications or training needed for placement.	Staffing/temp
11.15.7	Crew Replacement During Strikes	Replacing striking workers with non-union or international crew to break collective bargaining.	Film/television
11.15.8	Peer-Review Free Labor	Relying on unpaid academic peer reviewers while generating substantial subscription revenue from their volunteer contributions.	Academic publishing

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
11.16.1	Profile Data Lock-In	Preventing workers from exporting reviews, portfolios, or professional history when leaving a platform.	Freelance/gig
11.16.2	Customer-Data Hoarding from Workers	Preventing workers from accessing client contact information they need to build independent careers.	Freelance/gig, food delivery
11.16.3	Portfolio Rights Grab	Claiming ownership of employee or freelancer portfolio work beyond what is needed for delivery.	PR/marketing
11.16.4	Cross-Client Worker Profiling	Sharing worker performance data between clients to create informal blacklists.	Staffing/temp

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.1.1	Predatory Pricing	Below-cost pricing to drive competitors out of business before raising prices.	Cross-domain (PE-funded price wars, ride-hailing vs. transit, alcohol)
12.1.2	Predatory Pricing vs. Public Infrastructure	Subsidizing services below cost to draw users from public transit or other public services, then raising prices once those alternatives are weakened.	Ride-hailing

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.2.1	Killer Acquisitions	Acquiring competitors to shutter their products, absorb talent, or prevent alternatives from reaching market.	AI, cloud/SaaS, social media
12.2.2	Industry Roll-Up to Monopoly	Systematically acquiring small competitors to create local or regional monopolies.	Private equity (dental, vet, funeral, dialysis, etc.)
12.2.3	Catalog Consolidation	Acquiring and consolidating catalogs to reduce diversity of ownership and concentrate market power.	Music industry
12.2.4	Imprint Opacity	Operating dozens of imprints under a single corporate parent while presenting them as independent.	Publishing

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.3.1	Buy-Box / Listing Self-Preferencing	Designing buy-box or marketplace algorithms to favor private-label products over identical or superior third-party offerings.	E-commerce
12.3.2	Cloud Self-Preferencing	Designing cloud platforms to give the provider's own SaaS or PaaS products performance, cost, or integration advantages competitors cannot replicate.	Cloud/SaaS
12.3.3	Ghost-Kitchen Data Cloning	Analyzing restaurant order data to launch competing ghost kitchens that replicate successful menu concepts.	Food delivery
12.3.4	Search Self-Preferencing	Ranking the platform's own products, services, or AI assistant content above superior third-party alternatives.	Search engines, AI platforms
12.3.5	Music Catalog Self-Preferencing	Algorithmically promoting catalog owned or controlled by the platform's parent company.	Music industry
12.3.6	Bandwidth Throttling of Competitors	Deprioritizing or degrading network traffic from competing services while favoring owned content.	Streaming, telecom

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.4.1	Tying Arrangements	Forcing purchase of unwanted products as a condition of obtaining the desired one.	Cloud/SaaS, agriculture (seed-herbicide), insurance
12.4.2	Default-Engine Payment for Exclusivity	Paying device manufacturers, browsers, or operating systems to set the platform as default, foreclosing competition.	Search engines
12.4.3	Search Monopoly Leverage into Adjacent Markets	Using dominant search to force adoption of complementary services.	Search engines
12.4.4	GPS Critical-Infrastructure Hostage	Leveraging society's dependence on positioning, navigation, and timing services to extract preferential terms or block redundancy.	Space/aerospace

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.5.1	Price-Parity / MFN Enforcement	Contractually prohibiting sellers from offering lower prices on other platforms, inflating consumer prices.	E-commerce, hospitality
12.5.2	Spectrum / Resource Hoarding	Filing for vast spectrum allocations beyond intended use to block competitor access.	Space/aerospace, telecom
12.5.3	Launch Market Vertical Integration	Using vertical integration, exclusive pad access, or predatory pricing to prevent new entrants.	Space/aerospace
12.5.4	Independent-Bookstore Disadvantage	Negotiating exclusive terms or early-release windows with large retailers that independents cannot match.	Publishing

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.6.1	Bid Suppression / Rigging	Coordinating with competitors to refrain from bidding or to submit non-competitive proposals, ensuring a predetermined winner.	Construction
12.6.2	Algorithmic Rent-Setting Coordination	Using shared data platforms to coordinate rent increases across competing landlords.	Real estate
12.6.3	Refinery Maintenance Coordination	Coordinating maintenance shutdowns to create artificial supply constraints and raise prices.	Oil/gas
12.6.4	Spoofing & Layering	Placing large orders with no intent of execution to create false impressions of supply or demand.	Crypto/blockchain, financial markets
12.6.5	Wash Trading	Executing trades between controlled accounts to create artificial volume.	Crypto/blockchain
12.6.6	Operator-Cartel Pickup-Zone Exclusion	Operator-level collusion (driver associations, not platforms) to block competitors from designated pickup zones at airports, train stations, or events, often through intimidation, vehicle blocking, or coordinated reporting to enforcement.	Taxi associations vs. rideshare drivers, airport curb monopolies

§	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

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
12.8.1	Open-Source Bait-and-Switch	Building market position on open-source releases, then transitioning core capabilities to proprietary licenses once dominant.	AI, cloud/SaaS
12.8.2	Patent Thicket / Evergreening	Using patent thickets and litigation to block generic or biosimilar entry beyond legitimate IP protection.	Pharma/biotech
12.8.3	Pay-for-Delay	Paying generic manufacturers to delay market entry of affordable alternatives.	Pharma/biotech, healthcare
12.8.4	Public-Domain Misappropriation	Repackaging public-domain works with minor additions and claiming new copyright protection.	Publishing
12.8.5	Public-Domain Extension Lobbying	Lobbying to extend copyright terms beyond reasonable limits, restricting cultural reuse.	Music industry
12.8.6	Sample Clearance Gatekeeping	Maintaining opaque, expensive sample clearance that favors established labels and blocks independent creators.	Music industry
12.8.7	Reversion Right Obstruction	Preventing copyright reversion to creators after the statutory window through contract clauses or procedural barriers.	Music industry
12.8.8	Out-of-Print Suppression	Keeping books technically in print through token print-on-demand to prevent rights reversion.	Publishing
12.8.9	Editorial Board Replacement for Profit	Replacing dissenting editorial boards advocating for open access with compliant boards.	Academic publishing

§	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

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4.6 Worker / Workplace Surveillance · 7 practices

6.3 Algorithmic Wage & Earnings Manipulation · 4 practices

7.3 Greenwashing & Sustainability Misrepresentation · 10 practices

8.2 Planned Obsolescence · 5 practices

9.7 Cultural Appropriation & Disrespect · 6 practices

9.8 Indigenous Rights Violations · 4 practices

10.7 Migrant & Visa-Dependent Coercion · 5 practices

10.8 Incarcerated Population Exploitation · 6 practices

11.1 Worker Misclassification · 5 practices

11.2 Wage Theft · 9 practices

11.3 Unpaid Overtime & Crunch · 5 practices

11.4 Benefits Denial · 4 practices

11.5 Schedule Instability & Algorithmic Scheduling · 3 practices

11.6 Hazardous Conditions & PPE · 11 practices

11.7 Safety Incident Underreporting · 6 practices

11.8 Retaliation Against Reporting · 4 practices

11.9 Non-Compete Overreach · 4 practices

11.10 Forced Labor & Child Labor in Operations · 4 practices

11.11 Mass Layoffs After Profit & Disposable Workforce · 4 practices

11.12 Performance & Quality Management Abuse · 3 practices

11.13 Pay Disparity & Discrimination · 2 practices

11.14 Moderator & Worker Trauma · 5 practices

11.15 Unpaid Labor & Career-Path Exploitation · 8 practices

11.16 Restrictions on Career Mobility · 4 practices

12.1 Predatory Pricing & Cross-Subsidy · 2 practices

12.2 Acquisitions to Kill Competition · 4 practices

12.3 Self-Preferencing on Owned Platforms · 6 practices

12.4 Tying & Forced Bundling · 4 practices

12.5 Exclusive Dealing & Foreclosure · 4 practices

12.6 Bid Rigging & Collusion · 6 practices

12.7 Monopoly Rent Extraction · 7 practices

12.8 Open-Source / Standards Manipulation · 9 practices

12.9 Merchant / Seller Exploitation · 4 practices

13.1 Supply Chain Opacity · 7 practices

13.2 Forced & Child Labor in Supply Chain · 9 practices

13.3 Animal Cruelty in Supply Chain · 4 practices

13.4 Counterfeit & Sanctioned Goods · 4 practices

13.5 Deforestation-Linked Sourcing · 2 practices

13.6 Supplier Squeeze & Contract Abuse · 3 practices

14.1 Emission Underreporting & Concealment · 8 practices

14.2 Carbon-Offset Greenwashing · 5 practices

14.3 Pollution Concealment · 10 practices

14.4 Environmental Justice Siting · 3 practices

14.5 Habitat & Ecosystem Destruction · 9 practices

14.6 Microplastics & Persistent Pollutants · 6 practices

14.7 E-Waste & Disposal · 8 practices

14.8 Pesticide & Antibiotic Overuse · 4 practices

14.9 Site Abandonment & Stranded Liabilities · 6 practices

14.10 Catastrophic Risk Concealment · 5 practices

14.11 Lobbying Against Environmental Regulation · 7 practices

14.12 Resource Hoarding · 3 practices

15.1 Whistleblower Suppression · 4 practices

15.9 Strategic Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring · 4 practices

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
13.1.1	Supply Chain Opacity	Constructing complex multi-tier supply chains with insufficient documentation, making it impossible to trace inputs from origin to consumer.	Seafood, fashion, agriculture, beauty, cannabis, food/beverage manufacturing
13.1.2	Subcontractor Concealment	Hiding unauthorized subcontracting where workers face the worst conditions, claiming visibility only to Tier 1 suppliers.	Fashion
13.1.3	Audit Theater	Conducting pre-announced audits that allow temporary remediation, without follow-up or worker-driven monitoring.	Fashion, food, beauty
13.1.4	Unannounced Carrier Substitution	Handing shipments to undisclosed subcontractors with different service or liability standards.	Shipping/freight
13.1.5	Transshipment Concealment	Transferring catch or goods at sea between vessels to mix legal and illegal sources, obscuring origins.	Seafood
13.1.6	Vessel-Tracking Avoidance	Disabling, tampering with, or failing to install AIS or VMS tracking to evade monitoring.	Seafood
13.1.7	Quota Shell Games	Transferring quotas between vessels, regions, or corporate entities to obscure true catch and evade limits.	Seafood

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
13.2.1	Forced-Labor Sourcing	Procuring inputs from regions or operations with documented forced labor.	Fashion (cotton), seafood, agriculture, food/beverage manufacturing
13.2.2	Child-Labor Sourcing	Sourcing from suppliers that employ underage workers or using subcontracting structures to obscure child labor.	Agriculture, fashion, mining (rare earth, cobalt), food
13.2.3	Conflict-Mineral Sourcing	Failing to audit or disclose conflict-mineral sourcing despite known links to violence and human rights abuses.	Internal company ethics (hardware), electronics, automotive
13.2.4	Migrant-Recruitment Brokers	Hiring through labor brokers who charge recruitment fees, withhold wages, or impose contracts that create indebtedness.	Seafood, agriculture, construction
13.2.5	Cobalt / Lithium Source Opacity	Purchasing battery materials without tracing origin or verifying compliance with labor and environmental standards.	Renewable energy, electronics
13.2.6	Rare-Earth Mining Abuse	Sourcing from mines with documented child labor, forced labor, or toxic environmental practices.	Renewable energy, electronics
13.2.7	Panel-Manufacturing Labor Conditions	Procuring from factories with unsafe conditions, excessive hours, or wage theft.	Renewable energy
13.2.8	Audit-Scope Restriction	Limiting audit scope, providing advance notice, or selecting auditors with conflicts of interest to undermine ethical-sourcing claims.	Renewable energy
13.2.9	At-Sea Worker Abuse Concealment	Tolerating physical violence, food withholding, or confinement of crew far from oversight.	Seafood

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
13.3.1	Wildlife-Exploitation Tours	Selling animal-encounter experiences (elephant rides, dolphin swims, tiger photos) sourced from abusive facilities.	Travel/tourism
13.3.2	Puppy-Mill Concealment	Sourcing from high-volume commercial breeders while marketing animals as ethically bred.	Pet industry
13.3.3	Foie Gras / Factory-Farm Sourcing	Sourcing from intensive operations without disclosure of conditions; opposing welfare regulation.	Food, restaurants
13.3.4	Antibiotic Overuse in Livestock	Administering antibiotics prophylactically at scale to compensate for crowded conditions, accelerating resistance.	Agriculture

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
13.4.1	Counterfeit Goods Tolerance	Failing to police third-party listings for counterfeits while profiting from listing fees and traffic.	E-commerce, fashion
13.4.2	Sanctions Circumvention	Providing services to individuals, entities, or jurisdictions under sanctions, exploiting pseudonymity to bypass compliance.	Crypto/blockchain
13.4.3	Mixing Service Money Laundering	Operating or promoting mixing services that obscure transaction origins to facilitate laundering.	Crypto/blockchain
13.4.4	Restricted-Substance Export to Weak-Regulation Markets	Exporting chemicals banned in producing nations to countries with weaker frameworks.	Chemical manufacturing, tobacco

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
13.5.1	Deforestation-Linked Inputs	Sourcing palm oil, soy, cocoa, beef, or paper from suppliers linked to illegal or unsustainable deforestation without traceability.	Food/beverage manufacturing, beauty (palm oil), agriculture
13.5.2	Deforestation for Farmland	Clearing forested or ecologically significant land for agricultural expansion without environmental review.	Agriculture

§	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

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
14.1.1	Emission Underreporting	Understating Scope 1, 2, or 3 emissions through selective measurement, offset double-counting, or excluded segments.	Logistics, shipping, oil/gas, mining, energy utilities, waste management
14.1.2	Methane Emission Underreporting	Systematically underreporting methane through selective measurement or accounting.	Oil/gas, waste management
14.1.3	Toxic Release Underreporting	Systematically underreporting toxic releases to TRI or equivalent reporting systems.	Chemical manufacturing
14.1.4	Air Quality Monitoring Avoidance	Locating fenceline monitors to avoid detection or disabling monitors during peak release periods.	Chemical manufacturing
14.1.5	Compute Energy Concealment	Failing to disclose energy, water, or carbon costs of training and operating large AI models.	AI
14.1.6	Programmatic Ad Carbon Footprint	Operating massive computational infrastructure for real-time bidding without accounting for the resulting energy waste.	Digital advertising
14.1.7	Launch Emission Non-Disclosure	Failing to measure, report, or disclose atmospheric impact of launch emissions, including alumina, soot, and ozone-depleting compounds.	Space/aerospace
14.1.8	Reentry Risk to Populated Areas	Planning uncontrolled or marginally controlled reentry trajectories without adequate notification.	Space/aerospace

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
14.2.1	Carbon-Offset Greenwashing	Claiming carbon neutrality through low-quality, non-additional, or unverifiable offsets while absolute emissions rise.	AI, crypto, airlines, oil/gas, logistics, shipping, travel, renewable energy
14.2.2	REC Double-Counting	Counting the same renewable certificates toward both regulatory compliance and voluntary customer claims.	Renewable energy, energy utilities, crypto
14.2.3	Renewable Without Additionality	Claiming renewable operations while purchasing existing renewable credits rather than funding new capacity.	Crypto/blockchain
14.2.4	Carbon-Credit Misrepresentation	Selling carbon credits from landfill gas or other capture that does not represent genuine additional reduction.	Waste management
14.2.5	Curtailment Concealment	Failing to disclose when renewable generation is curtailed, overstating actual clean energy delivered.	Renewable energy

§	Practice	Description	Seen in
14.3.1	Groundwater Contamination Concealment	Detecting but not disclosing chemical migration into groundwater used for drinking, agriculture, or ecosystems.	Chemical manufacturing, oil/gas, agriculture, mining
14.3.2	Sewer/Water Overflow Concealment	Failing to report combined sewer overflows that release raw sewage into waterways.	Water utilities
14.3.3	Acid Mine Drainage Neglect	Failing to prevent or treat acid drainage that contaminates waterways for decades.	Mining
14.3.4	Pesticide Drift onto Communities	Applying broad-acre or aerial pesticides in conditions causing drift onto neighboring communities, schools, or organic farms.	Agriculture, pest control
14.3.5	Fertilizer-Runoff Concealment	Concealing the extent of nutrient pollution (dead zones, algal blooms, groundwater contamination).	Agriculture
14.3.6	Spill Response Delay	Delaying containment, cleanup, or notification after spills to minimize perceived liability.	Oil/gas, chemical manufacturing
14.3.7	Test-Frequency Reduction	Reducing water-quality testing frequency to cut costs, particularly in low-income service areas.	Water utilities
14.3.8	PFAS Concealment	Failing to test for or disclose PFAS in drinking water or in products.	Water utilities, personal care, chemical manufacturing
14.3.9	Contamination Notice Delay	Delaying public notification of water-quality violations.	Water utilities
14.3.10	Ground Water Contamination From Testing	Allowing propellant, solvent, or chemical runoff to contaminate aquifers without remediation.	Space/aerospace

§	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