We act 100% in accordance with the UN Global Compact, which was also signed by Koç Holding, the principal shareholder of Tofaş. Accordingly, Tofaş Ethics Committee working under the Board of Directors is responsible for regulating the issues associated with human rights, and we encourage our dealers and suppliers to follow the same principles.

We believe that diversity is the source of our corporate prosperity; therefore, it is one of the most significant components of our human rights approach. Hence, while recruiting employees or carrying out other human resources processes, we solely asses knowledge, talents, and skills. We do not discriminate our employees for their age, gender, beliefs, and ethnic origin. Furthermore, we implement “equal pay for equal work” policy, providing all of our employees with the same opportunities for the same job.

As an employer, Tofaş never tolerates child employment, forced working, violation of employee rights, or discrimination, and encourages the whole supply chain to adopt the same understanding. We expect all of our suppliers and business partners to act in line with the same human rights principles.

We encourage our employees to protect their union rights, and we care about their proper representation in their relationship with the management of the company. We allow them to freely exercise their collective bargaining and association rights, and we expect our suppliers and business partners to take the same stance with regards to their employees’ union rights.

“As of 2020, 77% of our employees are working under a collective bargaining agreement.”

All personnel working at our company, i.e. a Koç Group company, joins Koç Holding Pension & Assistance Fund, while field personnel are allowed to join the Fund as they please.

Furthermore, our employees and their families can benefit from the Koç Ailem Program and community-specific private health insurance offered to the employees working at Koç Group companies. All Tofaş employees paid per hour are covered by the Complementary Health Insurance with 100% contribution from the company. Employees are also allowed to include their spouses or children to the insurance, and in 2020 5,845 employees and 7,171 family members benefited from this option.

The number of children eligible for “One More Support to Education by Tofaş” scholarship that was launched in 2011 to support the education of our employees’ children, reached 2,443 in 2020.