Through this letter, Ernesto JUAREZ CAJICA, CEO of TEKALT, S.A. DE C.V. will continue to fully support the Global Compact and its principles. In order to renew our membership we will be sending the communication on progress report and the strategies applied in order to ensure the commitments of this initiative.
Tekalt, S.A. de C.V. is a construction company of Electric Power Substations and is a proud member of CMIC (Mexican Chamber of Construction) which places business ethics above all commercial considerations. As new members of the United Nations Global Compact this year our main approach was to raise awareness of the ten principles between Managers and Supervisors and other positions that exercise judgment in determining distribution of work and take immediate action when possible. We will briefly describe our strategies and the outcomes we obtained.

Our main goal was to raise awareness at the key managerial position of our company such as Project Managers, Team leaders and Partners of the firm in order to fully understand the first two principles of the Global Compact.

Meetings with a law firm that fully explained how Human Rights may be violated in our sphere of influence and each employee that were present in these talks committed to respect these principles within their work group.

Issues that often were disregarded have been now addressed especially conflicts concerning Religion and Freedom of Speech, however these conflicts were scarce during the year. For next year we would like to extend these talks to all of our permanent work force in order to prevent conflicts rather than taking administrative action once they occurred.

Tekalt has a strong commitment to its workforce therefore each worker had a personal contract with the company as well as a Union Contract (SUTERM) in which compensations such as food, transportation, health insurance and bonuses were outlined and detailed. We are proud to state that child labor has never been an issue in this company, since for the last 11 years we have been independently audited by the Mexican Social Security (IMSS). However we determined we didn’t had a clear procedure of evaluation while hiring personnel, the department of Human Resources was acknowledged of this issue.

A formal procedure was created various standardized tests as well as direct interviews with more than one representative of Tekalt were implemented.

We believe these actions reduce in a significant way personal cognitive bias. For next year we will be implementing an “Equitable pay for comparable work” procedure.

Our major footprint is the consumption of fossil fuels therefore we implement a strict maintenance program to our fleet in order to reduce emissions.

Mexican law requires two emission analyses per year per vehicle however our maintenance program was created to go a step further by revising the car at least three times per year.

This has proven to not only environmentally friendly but also cost effective since repairs and automotive failures dramatically decreased. For next year we will try to implement a recycling program within our offices, as well as digitalizing at least 30% of our documentation to reduce unnecessary printing, finally we will start to require our providers environmentally friendly policies.

Similar to the first two principles our first goal was to raise awareness and implement strict procedures to our key managerial personnel, talks on extortion and bribery were given by a law firm.

A zero tolerance policy was adopted in the company and our employees committed to follow procedures on such situations.

For next year we plan to implement independent audits and a committee that will review the results.