At Tofaş, the human rights are managed via Tofaş Ethics Committee performing under the Board of Directors. With regards to human rights, we assume the United Nations Global Compact, which is adopted by our main shareholder Koç Holding, as binding for us as well and aim 100% compliance to its principles.

We do not allow child labor, forced or compulsory labor and abuse of employee rights under any circumstances. Within our activities, we avoid any practice that can be identified as discriminatory. This understanding of human rights is also binding for our value chain beside the company operations. We expect our suppliers and business partners to act according to these principals. In 2017, we didn’t receive any formal complaint regarding supplier and business partner operations which raise a concern that these rights were at risk.

At Tofaş, diversity is a criterion of wealth for the organization culture. Thus, during the hiring process, we evaluate our prospects’ knowledge, skill, and capabilities. During recruitment or any other HR process, we don’t discriminate against age, gender, belief, ethnic origin or any similar aspect. We enable equal opportunities to all our employees in the same position.

One of the subjects we meticulously monitor is the protection of unionization rights of employees. We attach importance to the representation of employees in a healthy framework in their relationships with the company management and enable free use of their collective bargaining and unionization rights. As of 2017, 74% of our employees work according to collective bargaining agreement. In line with our approach to unionization, we didn’t experience any production or labor loss caused by the industrial relations during reporting period. We expect our suppliers and business partners to enforce union rights in full. We didn’t receive any complaints about certain risks on the union rights regarding the operations of our suppliers or business partners during the reporting period.

We provide various opportunities for our employees and their families to enhance their life standards. In this context, if they prefer, our employees and their families can benefit from the KoçAilem Program provided to Koç Group companies and the Group-wide private health insurance. By the end of 2017, 7,373 employees and 3,456 family members were included to Complementary Health Insurance.

Office employees can also benefit from the pension fund provided by Koç Holding Pension and Support Fund Foundation when starting the job. Our employees who adhered to the program make payment at the rate of 6% of their gross salary on condition not to exceed the ceiling amount defined by the Foundation, and the same amount is transferred to the fund by Tofaş as an employer contribution.

In addition to social security opportunities provided to employees, we also support the education of the children of our employees. The number of children benefiting from scholarship practice “One More Support to Education by Tofaş” initiated in 2011 has reached 1,463 by the end of 2017.