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Respect of human rights

Respect of human rights

Issues concerning respect of human rights in JSW can be divided into two categories:

  • respect of rights, including in particular personal freedoms of persons working for the Group,
  • respect of freedom of association and right to participate in and organize peaceful manifestations.
  • Personal rights and freedoms

    Personal rights and freedoms

    Aspects related to safeguarding due respect of inalienable rights and freedoms of each person became the foundation of the activities planned in the Sustainable Development Strategy 2017-2020 in the area of employees with regard to building sound, non-discriminatory organizational culture. It consists above all in ensuring previously non-existent formal mechanisms that support elimination of unethical behaviors in interpersonal relations (incl.: mobbing, discrimination on grounds of gender or nepotism), whose risk of occurrence is linked to the functioning of any organization. No tolerance for this type of phenomena results directly from legal regulations, including Labor Law, the compliance with which underpins all internal regulations.

    The tool which supports shaping desirable behaviors and enforcement of possible infringements of the adopted ethical standards in JSW is the JSW Group’s Code of Ethics adopted in 2017. It constitutes simultaneously the ethics, antidiscrimination and partially anticorruption policy of JSW. It establishes procedures concerning reports of infringements and irregularities, non-compliance with legal obligations, threats for occupational health and safety, health of clients and third parties, safety of natural environment, unfair competition practices and attempts to cover up any of the above. It provides all employees, regardless of their position, with the possibility to report problems at a high level and with the protection from possible reprisals on the part of superiors. The Code also helps to resolve conflicts of interest which inevitably occur in the functioning of any organization. The purpose of introduction of the aforementioned document was to safeguard mechanisms mitigating the risk of unethical behaviors in the Group.

    Additionally, at the end of 2017 the Management Board adopted the standard ethics clause to be applied in agreements with contractors. This allows JSW to extend the effect of ethics regulations one the JSW supply chain.

  • Freedom of association

    Freedom of association

    As of 31 December 2017 there were 122 trade union organizations operating in the Group. As one employee may be a member of several trade unions, the total trade union membership exceeds the number of employees in the Group and as of 31 December 2017 it was 31,780, which means a trade union membership rate of 120.1%.

    In the Parent Company the basis for cooperation with trade unions is regulated by the Rules of mutual cooperation between the JSW Management Board and the company trade union organizations operating in JSW concluded on 9 May 2015.

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