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LABOUR PRACTICES AND
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
0.7% The responsibility to support and empower people and
Attrition Rate the community is enshrined in SAGT’s core values, from
where it cascades into the day-to-day operations through
Share of women in executive roles the Company’s commitment to business integrity,
increased from openness, respect for universal human rights and labour
principles including respect for diversity, individuality, and
11%-28% humanity of employees and across society at large.
2
female engineers employed
for the first time
SAGT is an equal opportunity employer. All employees are remunerated equally and in line with
relevant labour laws and regulations. SAGT is compliant with Sri Lanka’s legislative requirements
covering benefit plans for employees and makes contributions to the Employees’ Provident Fund
(EPF) and the Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF), on behalf of all employees.
The responsibility to support and empower The Company has in place policies and In addition, periodic employee surveys are
people and the community is enshrined in procedures to ensure that human rights conducted in parallel with the SAGT training
SAGT’s core values, from where it cascades principles such as forced labour and non- calendar, in order to identify areas of concern
into the day-to-day operations through the discrimination are continuously embedded and potential conflict, while incidence of
Company’s commitment to business integrity, and reinforced across SAGT’s daily operations. forced labour and other related human rights
openness, respect for universal human Employees are made aware of these policies violations are tracked through the Company’s
rights and labour principles including respect and the implications of potential violations sustainability performance evaluation of
for diversity, individuality, and humanity of thereof. Any new policies are introduced at the relevant GRI indicators.
employees and across society at large. routine town hall meetings and subsequently
communicated via email and notice board.
SAGT recognises that respecting and The Company policies are hosted on the
protecting human rights is material to its SAGT intranet platform, accessible only to
employees, investors, customers, regulators, employees, a summarised version of the
and the communities in which it operates. Company policies is also included in the
induction programme for new recruits.