2018 Sustainability Report
The human rights field in Tofaş is managed by the Tofaş Ethics Committee, which is affiliated to the Board of Directors. We accept the UN Global Compact, which our main shareholder Koç Holding is a party to, and target to be 100% compliant with.
One of the most important components of our human rights approach is diversity. We believe that diversity is a criterion of richness for our corporate culture. As part of this understanding, we evaluate our employees according to their knowledge and skills in recruitment or other human resources processes. We do not discriminate on any of our processes based on age, gender, belief, ethnic origin or similar reasons. We adopt the principle of “equal pay for equal work” in determining the wage level of our employees. We offer equal opportunities to all our employees for the same value.
We do not permit violations of employee rights, child labor, forced and compulsory labor or discrimination. We aim to spread this approach towards human rights throughout our value chain. In this respect, we expect our suppliers and business partners to adopt the principles that are identical to Tofaş on human rights.
The protection of trade union rights of employees is also among the issues we follow with the same care. We attach importance to the representation of our employees in their relations with company management within the framework of a healthy structure and allow our employees to exercise their right to collective agreement and association freely. We expect that our position on the protection of trade union rights will be adopted by our suppliers and business partners.
As we are a company affiliated to Koç Group, all newly hired office workers become members of the Koç Holding Pension and Assistance Foundation. Field employees who have started to work in Tofaş can become a member of Koç Holding Pension and Assistance Foundation.
Our employees and their families can benefit from the KoçAilem Program and Community-specific private health insurance offered to Koç Group companies. All hourly paid Tofaş employees are covered by the Complementary Health Insurance with 100% company contribution. Employees can also include their spouses and children in insurance. In 2018, 8.109 employees and 5.616 family members were included in the scope of Complementary Health Insurance.
The number of children benefiting from the “One More Support to Education by Tofaş” scholarship practice, which we started in 2011 to support the educational background of our employees’ children, reached 1,886 in 2018.
