Employee Care and Social Responsibility

Employee Wellbeing

KEX has established an ethical and lawful employment policy, which provides employee benefits regardless of gender, nationality, or religion. KEX provides provident funds with as much as 15 percent contribution from employees and 5 percent from the company as well as health and life insurance. Meanwhile, employees who are associated with potential risks are provided with accident insurances as well.

We have also launched a stock option program to grant managers and higher-ranking positions warrants which hold a right to buy KEX’s stocks at the IPO price. This is to reward and incentivise high-performance employees to stay with the company.

In addition, when the company requires to develop or change any issues material to employee benefits, management will directly communicate with managers in advance and with everyone at a town hall meeting as well as through Kerry Me application - the company’s intranet network.

In 2020, KEX began to evaluate employee engagement. The results from the assessment, particularly those with low scores, will be analysed to bring about new activities, initiatives, and communication channels to meet employee expectations.

Safe Driving Measures

KEX is committed to safe driving and compliance with applicable laws by aiming to reduce the number of accidents down to zero. KEX has established a safe driving policy and disciplinary penalties in the event of an accident caused by driver’s negligence. We have formed our company Safety Committee, who has oversight, regular review and monitoring of our company measures, policies and guidelines. The occupational safety and environment business unit conducts preventive driving training to all new employees prior to the first working day.

The Safety Talk event is regularly held, together with communication throughout internal media, for KEX’s and sub-contractors’ drivers to discuss about safe driving. Our drivers are also required to check the vehicle condition every time before driving. These control measures have been effective and the number of accidents in 2020 has continuously declined and went down by more than 50% throughout the year.

Human Rights Policy

KEX complies with human rights laws and international best practices. Consequently, we included these matters as part of KEX’s business ethics for employees of all levels. This covers issues such as employment, ethical employee benefits, opportunity and equality, anti-slavery, forced and child labour, respect of civil rights and lawful political opinions, protection and preservation of personal information and non-infringement of intellectual property. We target to decrease complaints in 4 main issues down to zero by 2021.

In addition, we issued policies on significant matters relating to human rights such as a policy on non-discrimination, non-forced labor, and awareness campaign forbidding the dismissal of pregnant employees through internal and partners’ public relations media.

KEX has also put these policies in place into the supplier code of conduct and communicated with all partners to acknowledge and follow the guidelines.

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As a socially responsible enterprise and community partner, KEX has formed the COVID-19 Committee to be actively responsible for policy and measure enforcement to prevent the spread of the disease. Information is shared and updated shown on the company internal communication dashboard every day. We have also implemented measures to curtail transmission, for example cessation of unnecessary cross-city travel, with necessary cases requiring approved by the department head or the CEO, the prohibition of gatherings of more than 5 people, the social-distancing desk arrangement following the procedure from the Department of Disease Control, Work-from-Home practices, the temperature measurement before start working, and the provision of preventive equipment including masks and alcohol gel for all employees. We also cooperate with leading private hospitals to provide active case-finding kits to all requesting staff.