Social Compliance Policy of Tibet Group of Companies

As Tibet İthalat İhracat ve Koz. San. A.Ş. our social compliance policy covers the standards we have established by working together with all our business partners, in line with our fundamental principles and values. Our target is to make the Social Compliance Policy a corporate culture within our business. For this reason, social compliance standards have been established and started to be applied. In addition to creating products and services based on these social compliance standards, this policy commits to grant all rights of the employees arising from the standards within the framework of the laws, to comply with the occupational health and safety rules, to be sensitive to the environment, to ensure an open and honest communication among the employees and to establish the workplace environment in which the employees get respect and value. The social compliance policy is announced to all of our employees through the trainings or the communication channels (board, website, mail group etc.), our suppliers are informed accordingly and our suppliers are evaluated in accordance with these criteria. Within the scope of this policy, no sanction or punishment action is applied against the employees who express their concerns and complaints, which are noted using the suggestions, requests and complaints boxes. The employees can expressly state all kinds of their opinions, requests, complaints and suggestions using the boxes, and they are evaluated by the Senior Management and the necessary improvement activities are performed for the areas open to improvement. The Social Compliance Policy includes the following components: 

• Forced Labor (Voluntary Work)
• Child Labor (Minor Employees)
• Discrimination (Equalitarian Approach)
• Ethical Business Conduct
• Working Hours and Salaries (Salary / Wage)
• Health and Safety
• Engagement with the Society and the Stakeholders
• Foreign Employees
• Resting Days and Holidays
• Recruitment and Employment
• Employment Contract (Employer Contract)
• Labor and Workers’ Discipline
• Protection of the Environment Social Compliance Policy

 

1. Force Labor (Voluntary Work) Our Enterprise may not employ any employee by force. The working principles at our Enterprise are based on the principle of voluntariness. If the employee leaves the job, the Company may not prevent or suspend this except for any security reason. All kinds of information of our employee is protected and kept confidential to the extent specified by the laws

2. Child Labor (Minor Employees)

   At our Enterprise, the child labor may not be accepted under any circumstances. The minimum age designated by the national and international laws is taken into account except for the mandatory cases such as intern and trainee.

3. Discrimination (Equalitarian Approach)

 

Our Enterprise values all of its employees and the contributions that they provide. It has an essential commitment to prohibiting the discrimination and ensuring the equality of opportunity. As the management, we are determined to maintain our corporation as a company in which there is no discrimination or physical or verbal harassment on the basis of race, gender, color, nationality, social origin, religion, age, disability, political view or all kinds of values and statutes protected by the applicable laws. For our Enterprise, the personnel selection is performed based on the minimum qualifications such as vacant position, training, areas of interest, ability and work experience.

 

 

 

4. Ethical Business Conduct

 

Our Enterprise does not tolerate corruption, fraud, embezzlement or bribery under any circumstances. 

 

5. Working Hours and Salaries (Salary / Wage)

 

Our Enterprise gives competitive salaries to its employees according to the sectoral and local labor market.  Our applications are performed in full compliance with the applicable laws on salary, working hours, overtime and benefits and the employment contracts. The opportunities are proposed to our employees in order to develop their skills and capacities, and these efforts are supported by providing promotion opportunities as much as possible.

6. Health and Safety

 

Our Enterprise ensures that a safe and healthy workplace environment is created and maintained. The Company minimizes the risk of our employees to be exposed to an accident, injury and all kinds of factors threatening the health, and establishes a workplace environment in which the employees can work safely, healthy and efficiently and aims at ensuring the continuity of such workplace environment. Our Enterprise pays attention to ensuring a workplace environment in which there is no violence, harassment, threat, abuse and disturbing conditions. At our Enterprise, all occupational health and safety rules regulated by the legal legislation are applied.

7. Engagement with the Society and the Stakeholders

 

Our Enterprise commits to establishing a bond with its stakeholders on the basis of good will by listening their opinions, obtaining information from these opinions and taking into account them. In this regard, it determines the employee representatives in accordance with the legal legislation and establishes the environment in which the employees can negotiate their problems with the representatives and allows the employees to convey their problems using the suggestion boxes in writing. Our Enterprise commits to establishing a dialogue with its stakeholders in relation to the workplace and about the workplace rights within its sphere of influence when appropriate.

8. Foreign-National Worker Employment (Employment of Foreign Workers)

 

For the foreign workers employed/to be employed at our Enterprise in compliance with our laws, the employment contracts are drawn up in the language which they will understand. All employee personal procedures from the employment until the leave of employment process are performed in compliance with the legal legislation in force. The worker may not be employed by burdening with debt under any circumstances. The legal working rights of the foreign workers are protected by our Enterprise. Our Enterprise does not employ illegal worker.

9. Resting Days and Holidays

 

Our employees enjoy their resting days and holidays within the framework of their legal rights.

10. Recruitment and Employment

 

The necessary vacant positions are determined by the management of our Enterprise, and the employment is realized by the company management in compliance with the laws and within the framework of specific rules (equalitarian approach, leave, salary, holiday, employment contract etc.).

11. Employment Contract (Employer Contract)

 

"An Employment Contract of Indefinite Duration” which complies with the workplace and the laws and which includes the conditions proposed to the candidate personnel is prepared between our Enterprise and the person who will be employed.  The Employment Contract of Indefinite Duration and the Deed of Consent for Overtime are signed by the personnel who has accepted to start working. One copy of the employment contract is given to the employee against signature, and all rules and regulations required by our enterprise and the work are transferred to the relevant personnel through the orientation training.

12. Labor and Workers’ Discipline

 

The disciplinary rules established by the disciplinary board are applied by our Enterprise for the purpose of ensuring disciplined working. The Company may not apply salary deduction sanction in order to discipline its employee under any circumstances.  All of our employees carry out their works by acting in compliance with the instructions of working rules.

 

13. Protection of the Environment

 

With the sense of responsibility, we manage the environmental impacts that might arise from all kinds of our activities.  We determine and apply, in all of our activities, any kind of improvement and development works which will eliminate or minimize the environmental impacts and which will use the natural resources in the most efficient manner. All principles set forth in this policy document are put into practice by the necessary regulations and the level of the application is inspected by the relevant departments. We take into account the achievement which our Enterprise will have in the social responsibility practices as an important criterion in the evaluation of our company performance This policy document was prepared in order to share an express commitment that TİBET İTH. İHR. KOZ. SAN. A.Ş. will fulfill all kinds of responsibilities on its part for a better world and future with all of our employees, stakeholders and business partners.