Dong-A Chammed

The holdings company for Dong-A Socio Group and a participant in UN Global Compact, Dong-A Socio Holdings endorses Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and UN Guideline Principles on Business and Human Rights: Ruggie Framework as part of its effort to stay in compliance with the human rights and workers’ rights in all stakeholders we work with. Doing so, the Group ensures that all Dong-A companies consider human rights in their company-level Human Rights Management Framework.

Dong-A Socio Holdings endorses such international standards and guidelines as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN Guideline Principles on Business and Human Rights: Ruggie Framework, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct, and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on a matter of human rights, stays in compliance with the locally governi ng laws and regulations regarding human rights, and has established its own Charter of Ethics based on the international standards and initiatives on human right affairs. understanding the importance of staying true to the Charter of Ethics in implementation of human right management and prevention of human right infringement, Dong-A Socio Holdings has further enacted separate labor and personnel regulations that govern the internal rules of employment and potential human right infringement cases inside Dong-A companies or across the suppliers.

Dong-A Socio Group stands next to the victims of human right infringement and diversify reporting channels to help them report the case more easily. Applying zero tolerance to human right infringement cases, Dong-A Socio Group holds a Human Right Committee upon a case report and works the best to protect the victims from any ripple effects.

Dong-A Socio Group identifies risks of human rights infringements across all Dong-A companies by implementing due diligence or, more specifically, Human Right Impact Assessment and suggests corrective actions to prevent the infringement cases from recurring, using the internal checklists developed based on the National Human Right Commission of Korea’s official human right management guideline and checklists. The assessment processes, indices and systems will remain up-to-date to better identify potential human right infringements.

Dong-A Socio Group complies with the legal requirements of conducting educations to prevent sexual harassment and workplace harassment and encourage awareness of handicapped people, as well as the required safety and health educations and personal information protection educations, to prevent potential human right infringement cases and encourage employees and stakeholders to raise awareness on human right. The Group will arrange more human rights training and education sessions to further improve human rights across the Group and entire Dong-A companies.