
Human Rights Policy
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Value employees and maintain human rights
To protect employees’ rights and interests and to create a friendly workplace, Acter not only abides by government regulations related to human rights, but also stipulated code of conduct in accordance with Labor Standards Act, Act of Gender Equality in Employment and relevant regulations to protect employees’ legal rights and interests. In addition, Acter is against employment discrimination and does not hire child labor as prescribed in international human rights initiatives and norms. To ensure every employee is respected and treated with dignity and equality, we have also established multiple communication channels and mechanisms therefor.
Acter already stipulated human rights policy, which are applicable to our operations sites. Relevant indicators and measures are also reviewed each year on a regular basis. Relevant policies are described as follows:
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Provide a safe and healthy workplace. |
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Ensure equal employment opportunity. |
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Prohibition of child labor |
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Assist employees in maintaining physical and psychological health; and striking a balance between work and life. |
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Human rights advocacy and actions
Provide new recruits with information on relevant regulations, by which they can abide accordingly, in pre-employment training.
The content thereof shall include the prohibition of enforced labor and child labor, anti-discrimination, anti-sexual harassment, management of working hours, humane treatment and so on.
Implement workplace bullying prevention campaigns
Assist employees in understanding workplace bullying and knowing how to avoid workplace bullying; and create a friendly workplace with effective communication and open management.
Online sexual harassment prevention course
Enable employees to know about sexual harassment, how to prevent sexual harassment and how the company handles sexual harassment.
A complete series of occupational safety training
With respect to all situations that can occur in workplace, provide different safety training for employees of different types. For example, firefighting training, emergency response training, emergency medical technician training, general safety and health education training, factory safety training, safety training for new supervisors and so on.
Human rights incident reporting channels
- Acter has set multiple communication channels internally, including employees’ opinions mailbox, employees’ seminar, labor-management meeting, welfare committee meeting, employee satisfaction survey, through which employees can give feedback or report any problem.
- External personnel can also report any problem or file a complaint according to the information provided on Acter’s official website at “Stakeholders/ Contact Windows of Each Area”.
- The unit accepting the complaint will transfer the case to the unit in charge of the reported issue; and will, depending on the content of the issue, communicate with the employee.