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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.
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