FedEx UK Limited & FedEx Express UK Limited (“FedEx”)

This is the annual Modern Slavery Statement for 2022 for FedEx. This statement covers FedEx Express UK Limited and FedEx Express UK Transportation Limited for financial year ending 31st May 2022. See here for the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 statements.

Lawful and ethical behaviour is of paramount importance to FedEx and is critical to our continued success. The FedEx Code of Business Conduct and Ethics makes it clear that this is a requirement for all of our employees and places similar obligations upon suppliers to FedEx. As part of this requirement FedEx is committed to protecting and advancing human rights in all of our operations wherever they may be in the world.

This statement outlines the steps FedEx has taken to minimise the risk of modern slavery in its business and its supply chains in the last financial year and sets out FedEx’s future plans.

Within the United Kingdom FedEx provides international and domestic delivery services and mainly operates through two companies, FedEx Express UK Limited and FedEx Express UK Transportation Limited.

FedEx has a large and complex supply chain and has many direct supply arrangements on a global basis and on an individual in country basis.

The FedEx Code of Business Conduct and Ethics sets out the expectations that are relevant for all of our employees and for our suppliers wherever we do business in the world. The FedEx Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is regularly updated to ensure that standards comply with local laws and regulations. Doing business in an ethical and responsible manner is already enshrined within our current set of policies and procedures. These policies and procedures help to ensure that Slavery and Human Trafficking do not occur within our business or our supply chains. For more detail on the relevant FedEx policies, see our 2016 statement.

We continue to maintain our strong culture of ethics and integrity that supports and encourages compliance with these internal policies.

We are committed to ensuring there is transparency in our business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains. We fully expect the same high standards from our suppliers. We will check our high risk suppliers comply with our standards by asking them to complete our Modern Slavery Supplier Questionnaire. This Questionnaire asks suppliers to confirm, amongst other things, what steps they are taking to mitigate risks of modern slavery taking place in their own supply chains.

We ensure new suppliers have agreed to our high standards on Modern Slavery from the outset of the procurement process by; ensuring they agree to our tendering guidelines where applicable, including a clause requiring compliance with the Modern Slavery Act in all of our bespoke supplier contracts and requiring new suppliers to confirm their compliance with our standards on Modern Slavery by completing an on-boarding questionnaire.

In the last year a new supplier compliance monitoring tool that is hosted by an external provider has been launched which evaluates the performance of a supplier on a range of topics including Labour, Human Rights and Ethics. It is intended that in the next year that this tool is used more widely.