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4. The planning and implementation of forest management activities should incorporate
the results of social impact assessments. The consultation process with the population
and the groups that are directly affected by the manegement must be maintained.
5. The appropriate mechanisms to resolve complaints and provide fair compensation in
case of loss or damage that affects the legal and customary rights, the property, the
natural resources or livelihoods of local people should be adopted. The necessary
actions to avoid such losses or damages must be done.
6. The responsible for the forest management must consider initiatives in the social area
field to be included in planning and operations of forest management activities. Must be
maintained and confirmed the existence of information and clear opportunity to
participate from the local community(ies) that is (are) directly affected for forest
management operations, and consider their perspectives on the issues that directly affect
their quality of life.
7. There should be mechanisms for dialogue and the resolution of complaints between
the worker and the responsible for the forest management unit, including the
representation, which is formally recognized by the workers.
8. Workers must pay the minimum consistent with the market average in the region,
according to the productive activity that is performed.
9. Should not be used child labor, in violation of the Law, in the forest management unit.
The work of the young people, that are in the age of apprentices, is only allowed in nonstrenuous
activities considered by the authorities and with the guarantee of access to
education.
10. The female labor during pregnancy and breastfeeding should be accompanied by
preventive measures of risks and dangers that are inherent to the productive activity that
is performed.
11. In the hypothesis of substantial changes in the employment framework of forest
management unit, the preventive actions to minimize the impacts of layoffs on workers
and on the local communities must be taken.
12. The adoption of programs or strategies to flexible the work should not result in harm
to the rights lawfully acquired by forestry workers. The person responsible for forest
management unit must undertake sustained efforts to minimize the differences between
workers and the contractors themselves and avoid the precarious working conditions.
13. The community's access to management and non-predatory collection of forest
products derived from wood or not, is allowed and regulated in the places where such
access has existed for legal or historical reasons, by formal permission granted by the
responsible from the forest management unit, in compliance with the property rights.
These thirteen criteria, based on indicators, provide an analysis of the reality of the company
being certified. This way, we observe that in Brazil, the companies that are certificated
appropriate themselves to the principles demands. Particularly in relation to the employees; they
guarantee the proper registration, with wages in accordance with labor agreements; adapt their
structures to provide safe working conditions with a team consisting of doctors and labor
engineers, and in case of accidents remains the logistic structure suitable for the service.
Forest Landscapes and Global Change-New Frontiers in Management, Conservation and Restoration. Proceedings of the IUFRO Landscape Ecology
Working Group International Conference, September 21-27, 2010, Bragança, Portugal. J.C. Azevedo, M. Feliciano, J. Castro & M.A. Pinto (eds.)
2010, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal.