Statement on the Transparency Act

The Transparency Act came into effect on July 1, 2022. At Hyre, we are fully supportive of legislation that promotes respect for fundamental human rights and decent working conditions.

Who we are and our values

Hyre offers car sharing and car rental services to individuals and businesses in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Our vision is that no one should need to own their own car in the cities of the future. The company is headquartered in Oslo and is owned by Møller Mobility Group AS (72%) and employees. Møller Mobility Group AS is the majority owner, and the company is included in group reporting.

Hyre AS had 46 employees as of December 31, 2022, and we have implemented Møller Mobility Group AS' Code of Conduct and Møller Mobility Group - Guidelines for Ethical Trade as our mandatory ethical guidelines. These guidelines help ensure that we deliver quality and act with integrity and serve as a key tool for all Hyre employees in their day-to-day operations.

Our work with the transparency act

Hyre is subject to the Transparency Act, and we work closely with other parts of the group, our suppliers, and business partners to implement this regulation in the execution of our business. The work related to the Transparency Act is an ongoing process of improvement, and our efforts in this area will continue to evolve in the coming years.

Initially, we have prioritized the following activities:

• Review and update our governing documents to ensure that the values, routines, risk assessments, and guidelines take into account the requirements set forth by the Transparency Act.
• Review risk factors related to our industry, conducted by Møller Mobility Group in collaboration with Ethical Trade Norway. The report from Ethical Trade Norway can be found here
• Assess the risk posed by Hyre’s suppliers and business partners to determine if there is any risk of negative impact on human rights and decent working conditions based on recognized risk parameters.
• Establish tailored measures and control actions within the various risk categories.

To succeed in this work, Hyre’s strategy is to work long-term and maintain a good and open dialogue with all our suppliers and business partners.

Negative consequences and significant risks of negative consequences identified by the company

Norway and Sweden are assessed as "green" or level 1 of 5 in Ethical Trade Norway’s risk screening. In Norway, the construction and agriculture sectors are exceptions, representing higher risk, but Hyre has minimal or no exposure to these sectors. The workshop industry is not considered particularly high-risk in Norway. However, unscrupulous actors have been identified in the car detailing industry, and smaller workshops may face risks of similar irregular working conditions. There is a risk of very low wages, unjustified withholding of wages, and other coercive-like situations in this sector.

Hyre uses many different workshops and companies within car detailing. While no negative consequences have been identified, Hyre has classified suppliers in the workshop and car detailing industry as a risk area that the company will continue to monitor with control actions.

Our Supplier Chain Requirements Relate to the Following Areas:

1. Forced labor/slavery (ILO Conventions No. 29 and 105)
2. Freedom of association and collective bargaining (ILO Conventions No. 87, 98, 135, and 154)
3. Child labor (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ILO Conventions No. 138, 182, and 79, ILO Recommendation No. 146)
4. Discrimination (ILO Conventions No. 100 and 111, and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
5. Brutal treatment
6. Health, environment, and safety (ILO Convention No. 155 and Recommendation No. 164)
7. Wages (ILO Convention No. 131)
8. Working hours (ILO Conventions No. 1 and 14)
9. Regular employment
10. Marginalized population groups
11. Environment
12. Corruption

Focus going forward

• Pursue all risk areas highlighted in the Ethical Trade Norway report on our business, to ensure even better control to reduce and eliminate risks.
• When the company identifies that it has caused or contributed to actual harm, the harm shall be addressed by providing or cooperating in the provision of remediation and compensation.
• Hyre will attempt to restore the situation that the affected person or persons would have been in without the harm (if possible), and provide remediation proportionate to the nature and extent of the harm.
• Hyre will comply with the law and seek international guidelines for remediation where available. Where such standards or guidelines are not available, Hyre will consider whether remediation provided in similar cases can be applied.
• The type of remedy or combination of remedies that is appropriate will depend on the type of harm and the extent of the damage. This may include apologies, compensation, restitution, economic or non-economic compensation, sanctions, or implementing measures to prevent future harm.
• In cases involving human rights impacts, affected rights holders and their representatives shall be consulted and involved in determining how any human rights violation should be remedied.

Grievance mechanism

External inquiries are handled via email at aapenhetsloven@hyre.no