Human Rights Management
Compal has established human rights management processes and regularly assesses human rights risks at our operational sites and across our value chain. Based on the findings of Salient human rights issues, we develop corresponding management measures and follow-up procedures to ensure Compal's human rights policy and commitments are continuously enforced and refined. Compal conducts a human rights risk assessment at least once every three years. The related human rights risk assessment process, management measures, and follow-up results are publicly disclosed in both the Chinese and English versions of our Sustainability Report and on our Sustainability website. This communicates Compal's progress in human rights management to external stakeholders, and details how we continuously improve our human rights management processes.
Governance Structure and Roles & Responsibilities
To ensure the effective implementation and enforcement of this Policy, Compal has incorporated human rights matters into its overall sustainability governance framework. Human rights–related policies, programs, and management matters are governed by the Board of Directors. Under the four dimensions of Economic, Environmental, Social, and Governance (EESG), the Sustainability Development Committee oversees responsible units, including Human Resources, Responsible Manufacturing, and Sustainable Supply Chain functional teams, which jointly promote the management and execution of human rights–related initiatives. The overall implementation status is consolidated and regularly reported to the Sustainability Development Committee. The Sustainability Development Committee and the Board of Directors are responsible for overseeing the overall operation and effectiveness of human rights governance.
Management Mechanism
A: Convene meetings periodically and routinely, propose discussion on management status of topics and issues encountered to responsible units, and implement improvements. In addition, report the management status of topics to the ESG office periodically, and provide decisions on whether relevant projects are to be implemented or the management policy and strategy are to be revised. In case of encountering unanticipated topics, the meeting frequency is adjusted depending upon the situation.
B: Human rights training：
All employees of Compal, regardless of whether they are direct or indirect employees, undergo education and training on human rights related topics, in order to prevent human rights issues occurring and to enhance employees' awareness regarding such issues. Based on consideration of factors such as the employee workplace and working hours, an online course delivery method, offering greater flexibility, has been adopted.
The human rights education and training content includes:
- Introduction to human rights related laws and regulations: “International Bill of Human Rights","United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights",“International Labour Organization Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work",“Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises",“The United Nations' Ten Principles of United Nations Global Compact" (UNGC)”and the“Responsible Business Alliance Code of Conduct (RBA)".
- Policy education: Compal's human rights policy, internal and external communication and complaint channel, future strategy and development goal.
The Compal Human Rights Management Process
Human Rights Issue Risk Assessment
Compal references the RBA Code of Conduct and the latest trends in international electronics industry human rights issues and regularly reviews and adjusts its list of potential human rights risks issues as the basis for designing human rights risk assessments. Compal's mechanism for assessing human rights risk issues covers value chain stakeholders, including our own operational scope, Tier 1 suppliers, contractors, and joint ventures. The assessment process also incorporates evaluating the potential risks of these issues for diverse groups, including children, women, indigenous people, and foreign migrant workers. For identified Salient human rights issues, we develop risk mitigation and remediation measures.
Human Rights Mitigation & Remediation Tracking
Compal regularly tracks the implementation progress of risk mitigation and remediation measures to ensure the effectiveness of our management actions.
For details of tracking related risk mitigation and remediation measures, please refer to the latest Human Rights Report.
⇒Compal Human Rights Report