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We Do Obey All Legal & Social Compliances Guided by Laws and Regulatory Bodies as Per Local Government Order & Global Requirements. Some of Our Major Compliance Issues Are:
Social Compliance
To uphold the reputation of our Customers, Business Partners & our organization by ensuring ethics, integrity, and technical expertise are uncompromisingly practiced in our audit processes.
To enlist the factory, our compliance team first visits the factory for a social compliance audit. If the audit passes, then we proceed with the order placement...
We monitor compliance issues of all our enlisted suppliers and vendors regularly, announced and unannounced.
Employees’ COC covers
- Bribery
- Disclosure of confidential documents
- Misappropriation of assets
- Falsification of records
- Sexual harassment
- Activities of conflicting business interest
- Violation of sourcing ZTV code
Suppliers' COC Covers
- Child labor
- Disciplinary practices
- Legal Requirements
- Working hours
- Freedom of Association
- Unauthorized subcontracting
- Health, Safety
- Forced labor
- Harassment & Abuse
- Ethical standards
- Working hours
- Wages & Benefits
- Discrimination
- Building and fire safety
- Environment
Compliance Issues To Be Categorized As ZTV
AA Sourcing Ltd Code Of Conduct For Manufacturing Unit
Our code is derived from the values and standards set by our customers. More particularly the Declaration of Human Rights and many of the ILO core conventions and local laws. It is our earnest endeavor to meet all the aspects of our buyers’ code of conduct. We only work with factories that are approved by our buyers.
Approved Factory
It will be our earnest endeavor to meet all the aspects of our buyers’ code of conduct. We will only work with such factories that are approved by our buyers.
Child labor
Use of Child labor is not tolerated by our code. We do not work with such business partners who employ workers less than 15 years of age. Furthermore, no worker shall be younger than the mandatory school-going age in the respective countries of operation. If the local law stipulates a higher minimum age than that of 15 years, then a more stringent limit is applicable.
Forced labor
We do not work with any factory or organization that engages in forced or bonded labor.
Disciplinary practices
We expect all our business partners to establish a clear disciplinary action procedure in line with the local law. We do not work with factories consisting of employees, who use abusive language or practice corporal punishment, in the form of mental or physical abuse or any other coercive practices in any form against the workers.
Harassment & Abuse
We do not work with any factory or organization that engages in any kind of harassment and abuse. It is strongly prohibited and contradicts the buyer's Code of conduct, as per our business ethics as well as our local law.
Legal requirements
We expect all our business partners to comply with the local laws applicable to the conduct of their business.
Ethical standards
We make sure to identify and work with such organizations whose ethical standards are not divergent from ours.
Working hours
We prefer to work with business partners who try and meet the 60 hour weekly limit. Whenever the regular work hour limit is exceeded, we expect the workers to be compensated as per the local law for the additional overtime hours. We accept flexibility in scheduling work hours; however, we will not use business partners, who on a regular and systematic basis make the employees work more than the 60-hour weekly limit. Also, workers should be given one day off in seven days.
Wages and Benefits
We only work with such business partners who compensate their workers as per the prevailing law and provide all benefits legally due to them.
Freedom of Association
We respect the rights of workers to join an association of their choice and their right to Collective Bargaining. We only work with such business partners who share this same belief and they should ensure that workers who participate or associate with such movements are not discriminated against. No Punitive action should be taken against such workers for being a part of such association or movement as long as they don’t violate any of the local laws.
Discrimination
While being cognizant of cultural, religious, and other differences, we firmly believe that workers should be allowed to work, based on their skills only. Caste, Creed, Race, etc. shall not be a part of the process used to decide employability.
Unauthorized Subcontract
Unauthorized subcontracting is considered a Zero Tolerance Violation. No vendor shall subcontract any aspect of our production without prior information and approval from our company. Any violation will result in the delisting of such factories.
Building and fire safety
We expect firmly that all our business partners ensure building and fire safety as per the local Law and the buyer’s requirement.
Health & Safety
We engage only with such factories that provide their workers with a safe and healthy work environment.
Environment
We want all our business partners to ensure that their work process does not affect the environment adversely in any way. It is expected of all our business partners to meet the legal requirements on all environmental aspects and continuously strive to go beyond just meeting the law.
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
AA Sourcing Ltd prefers and works only with factories that take their social responsibility seriously and put in effective measures to ensure the betterment of the community and environment around them. This not only boosts our morality but also allows our clients to feel that something of greater good comes out of their business with us above the monetary transactions.
It is in our code to make sure our business partners are all warry of the well-being of their workers and the environment. Our compliance factories have in-house daycare centers, emergency first aid professionals, and many other social windows to ensure the workers' peace of mind. They are also well equipped with waste disposal equipment and methods to ensure minimal adverse effects on the environment.
Besides, we are proud to have developed and supported exceptional charitable initiatives across Bangladesh. And AA Sourcing Ltd Bangladesh participated in all, from the beginning. Ensuring proper Education for underprivileged and orphaned children, Funds for rural area clinics, etc.
Ensuring Education for Kids:
AA Sourcing Ltd feels that since we are at one with the world it is our responsibility to improve the world. The mission is to provide underprivileged and orphaned children with a quality education that will give them the skills they need to provide for themselves and their families in the future – thereby breaking the vicious cycle of poverty.
Funds for Clinic:
We are allocating some portion of our funds to clinics that are located in Rural areas. We donate to these clinics to provide free medical care to impoverished people. These health clinics provide free consultancy, treatment, and homeopathic medicines to the poorest people in these rural areas.
