Employees of subcontractors or their contractors are the third party beneficiaries of this Code and may enforce this Code against the subcontractor or its contractor in a forum of their choosing, such as a court of law, or before any fair and impartial trier of fact in the countries in which they reside. Enforcement includes but is not limited to recovery of unpaid wages and obtaining injunctions against violations of this Code. All subcontractors must adhere to basic fair labor standards. Bard reserves the right to terminate relations with a subcontractor that violates national, local, or regional laws of the region of manufacture. Bard will not do business with subcontractors who coerce their workers into unwanted attendance, place workers at undue risk of physical harm, fails to provide fair compensation for work or exploits its workers in anyway.
Subcontractors recognize that wages are essential to workers' basic needs.
If a quota or piece-rate system is used, then subcontractors must insure that the piece rate quotas are adjusted to what can reasonably be accomplished in a workday. Employees shall not be required to work more than forty hours a week and eight hours overtime, and will be entitled to at least one day off in every 7-day period, as well as paid holidays and vacations. In addition to their compensation for regular hours of work, employees shall be compensated for any volunteer overtime hours at one and one half times the regular rate of pay during the work week and twice the regular rate of pay on holidays at a minimum. Subcontractors must provide workers with a safe and healthy work environment. If residential facilities are provided to workers, they must be safe and healthy facilities.