Corporate Responsibility

IceCarats Jewelry is committed to going beyond the industry standards in our efforts to support human rights, environmental stewardship, and ethical business practices. IceCarats Jewelry is not a direct importer of merchandise except for loose diamonds. So, to meaningfully ensure compliance with its high standards of ethics, integrity, and respect, IceCarats takes the following approach:

 

We abide by the Kimberly Process and refuse to import directly or buy from any importer or other supplier; any diamond mined after December 31, 2002, is not accompanied by the World Diamond Council's warranty statement. This warranty statement requires every seller in the chain of supply to affirm that the diamond has been purchased through authorized channels not involved in conflict funding.

Conflict-Free Diamonds And Gemstones

We take the issue of conflict diamonds very seriously. As a customer, you can be confident that we take concrete and comprehensive measures to ensure that the products we sell do not include Conflict Diamonds. IceCarats is making every effort to bar conflict diamonds from its inventory and assure our customers that the diamonds we sell are from legitimate sources.
Team Members are vital to IceCarats' ability to achieve its objectives and mission. Therefore teamwork, integrity, communication, and fair treatment all play an essential part in the way the Company operates. Furthermore, IceCarats' ability to act under its Principles is dependent on its Team Members' understanding of them and how they impact on their respective roles and responsibilities.

 

IceCarats considers its relationship with its Team Members to be excellent, valuing honest, open, and constructive two-way communication. We achieve this through regional management meetings in addition to staff opinion surveys, feedback reports, and staff meetings. These procedures facilitate consultation during which the views of Team Members can be expressed and taken into account in decisions likely to affect their interests. We inform our Team Members of IceCarats' performance and objectives through management contact supplemented by staff publications in both the US, Canada, and the UK. The involvement of Team Members in IceCarats' results is encouraged through participation in performance-related incentive payment schemes and savings-related share option schemes, including all Team Members, subject to minimum employment requirements. IceCarats does not restrict or discriminate against Team Members who wish to be covered by collective bargaining agreements.
IceCarats is not to tolerate any form of unlawful discrimination on any grounds or at any level. In respect of people with disabilities, we give full and fair consideration to employment, opportunities for training, career development, and promotion according to their skills and capacity. The services of any existing Team Members who become disabled are, where possible, retained, and appropriate training is arranged for them wherever possible. There are dispute resolution procedures in place in both divisions. Signet assigns responsibility for human resource matters, including health and safety, to divisional executive management committees. Both the US and UK operations have established systems that include the provision of training and development opportunities at all levels of the organization.
 

Signet supports the Fundamental Conventions of the International Labour Organization and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It encourages support and respect for the protection of human rights within its sphere of influence. The Supplier Code sets out the IceCarats' expectation that suppliers respect the Fundamental Conventions of the International Labor Organization and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Signet is engaged at a senior executive level to address human rights in the jewelry supply chain on an industry-wide basis directly with civil society and government and through the RJC.

IceCarats believes it is best to give support to a small number of specific charities rather than fragment its charitable giving.