Netaş COP
- Participant
- Published
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- 18-Dec-2020
- Time period
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- December 2019 – December 2020
- Format
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- Stand alone document – Basic COP Template
- Differentiation Level
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- This COP qualifies for the Global Compact Active level
- Self-assessment
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- Includes a CEO statement of continued support for the UN Global Compact and its ten principles
- Description of actions or relevant policies related to Human Rights
- Description of actions or relevant policies related to Labour
- Description of actions or relevant policies related to Environment
- Description of actions or relevant policies related to Anti-Corruption
- Includes a measurement of outcomes
- Statement of continued support by the Chief Executive Officer
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Statement of the company's chief executive (CEO or equivalent) expressing continued support for the Global Compact and renewing the company's ongoing commitment to the initiative and its principles.
- No answer provided.
- Human Rights
- Assessment, policy and goals
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Description of the relevance of human rights for the company (i.e. human rights risk-assessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on Human Rights.
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During the pandemic period to support the employees;
• For our employees’ safe and healthy, we provided working flexibility.
• In order to support the mental health of our employees; we held online activities on different topics such as meditation, mindfulness and etc.
• We held online townhall and management meetings under the direction of our CEO to equalize the level of knowledge within the company.
Inclusion activities for the disadvantageous parties;
• We have been provided online STEM education over 120 students all over Turkey.
• We donated computers to the students.
• We established innovation and technology classes in elementary schools.
• We provide 40-week training program for our employees' children, including coding, artificial intelligence, and mathematics.
• With the cooperation of TEV, we have been providing mentoring support to female university students for 2 years.
• We prepared Netaş Diversity Principles and started the signature process for all our employees. Principle document was included into the welcome kit of our new employees.
Creating and supporting Ecosystem;
• We supported young STEM teams on the international platforms, such as First Lego League, World Robotics Competition.
• We supported start-ups by R&D and knowledge sharing.
Supporting rural development
• We have realized a significant social responsibility project on November 2015 involving the plantation of initially 16,000 saplings in Gazikoy, Tekirdag on the northern coast of the Sea of Marmara. At the ‘Netas Healing Forest", we plant 23 different species of trees and medicinal aromatic plants in a 10-hectare field not only to preserve & enhance ecological diversity but also build a source of income for the villagers in the area. Locust, walnut, chestnut, almond, rosemary, lavender, sage and many other plants will transform the land into sources of oxygen & nests for animals. This project underpins our company’s commitment for a green and healthier, cleaner world.
• Pandemic period, we had realized a new project with by e-cording, one of the award-winning start-ups. As part of the project, the seed balls produced by the women villagers were sprinkled into the forest with a drone. Thus, the village people and women will earn income from the seed balls they produce, and the export income of the village will increase with the increased amount of sage.
- Implementation
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Description of concrete actions to implement Human Rights policies, address Human Rights risks and respond to Human Rights violations.
- No answer provided.
- Measurement of outcomes
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Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.
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• 5 townhall meetings in 10 months.
• 8 online events on different topics in 10 months
• 50 computer donation
• 122 online stem education
• Mentoring support to 70 university students.
- Labour
- Assessment, policy and goals
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Description of the relevance of labour rights for the company (i.e. labour rights-related risks and opportunities). Description of written policies, public commitments and company goals on labour rights.
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* We comply with minimum wage standards.
* In our recruitment processes, we have processes such as reference control, personal inventory and multi-stage interviews. Performance is tried to be created in line with SMART goals and goes through multiple calibrations and peer reviews in finalization.
- Implementation
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Description of concrete actions taken by the company to implement labour policies, address labour risks and respond to labour violations.
- No answer provided.
- Measurement of outcomes
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Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.
- No answer provided.
- Environment
- Assessment, policy and goals
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Description of the relevance of environmental protection for the company (i.e. environmental risks and opportunities). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on environmental protection.
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Based on the employee number, sanitary conditions were provided and regulated by national law. Climatization, heating, cooling, and workplaces were designed depending on national law and OHSAS regulations.
• Our company has established an environmental, health and safety policy and has IS0 14001 verified by TUV Nord.
• Based on environmental policy; prevention of pollution, control of the amount of waste, conservation of sources and monitoring of energy consumption are carried out by Facility& Technical Management and EHS department. Our targets have been set and monitored yearly. Besides, emissions that are stemmed from our operations has been calculated and disclosed into Climate Change report on CDP.net.
• All environmental activities are submitted on Environmental Health Safety report and published on our website each year.
• In our facilities or our operations occurring in the sites, the emergency procedures have been arranged and regular drills are conducting in order to be ready for every unexpected cases.
- Implementation
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Description of concrete actions to implement environmental policies, address environmental risks and respond to environmental incidents.
- No answer provided.
- Measurement of outcomes
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Description of how the company monitors and evaluates environmental performance.
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Waste minimization: 11 tons.
Occupational accident lost day incidence and number of lost days
• Lost Day Number Intensity: 0
• Lost Day Case Frequency: 0
- Anti-Corruption
- Assessment, policy and goals
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Description of the relevance of anti-corruption for the company (i.e. anti-corruption risk-assessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on anti-corruption.
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Netas Telekomunikasyon A.S and its subsidiaries;
• has a Compliance Department which includes employees who has anti-bribery, corruption and ethics backgrounds and responsible with all subsidiaries. All employees are aware that they can easily contact with any member of the team whenever they need.
• has Anti – Bribery and Corruption Policy and Anti – Bribery and Corruption Procedure which includes management commitment, gift and entertainment, relationships with public agencies, facilitating payments, donations, sponsorships etc. Those are updated according to the regulatory changes / company needs. Those are in progress of updating in 2020 Q4 as well.
• recently published a Donations Procedure which is inseparable part of the Anti-Bribery Policy.
• trains its all employees regarding anti bribery and corruption in annually base. The trainings are updated according to company needs / regulatory changes.
• has a Code of Conduct and Supplier Code of Conduct which includes anti-bribery and corruption commitment / clause. Code of Conduct is in progress of updating in 2020 Q4 as well. The goal for 2021 is to provide ethics training to all employees and as well as business partners.
• ZTE, the controlling shareholder of Netas, has a whistleblowing hotline which is open to all its subsidiaries. Nevertheless, Netas recently initiated to establish a local whistleblowing line as well.
• employees have compliance targets in their KPIs.
- Implementation
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Description of concrete actions to implement anti-corruption policies, address anti-corruption risks and respond to incidents.
- No answer provided.
- Measurement of outcomes
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Description of how the company monitors and evaluates anti-corruption performance.
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Anti-Corruption
All employees have compliance targets in their KPIs.
If necessary, audits on Anti-Bribery and Corruption may be conducted through Netaş Compliance Team or it’s main shareholder ZTE or an independent party.