Ethical policy: AKH requires all its Manufacturers to conduct their businesses in an ethical manner. No contract will be entered into with any Manufacturer engaged in bribery, kickbacks, or the provision of gifts, favors, or services to gain a competitive advantage with AKH or any third party.
No Forced Labour: Business Partners must maintain employment on a voluntary basis respecting the right of employees to decide to work or not. Business Partners shall not use forced labor, whether in the form of prison labor, indentured labor, bonded labor or otherwise in the manufacture or in their contracting, subcontracting or other relationships for the manufacture of their products.
No Child Labour: Manufacturers shall not engage in child labor. Workers can be no less than age 15 (or 14 where the law of the country of manufacture allows), or the age at which compulsory schooling has ended, whichever is greater. In situations involving hazardous working conditions, we require that workers are at least 18 years of age.
No Harassment or Abuse & Disciplinary practices: Babylon requires that all its Manufacturers comply with management practices that recognize the dignity of the individual and the right to a workplace free of harassment, abuse, and corporal punishment. The company shall not allow behavior including gestures, language, and physical contact that is sexually coercive, threatening, or exploitative.
Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining: AKH requires all its Manufacturers to respect the rights of their employees to freedom of association and to organize collective bargaining in a lawful and peaceful manner; Manufacturers shall not interfere with or attempt to dominate or control bodies representing workers, nor shall they discriminate against workers choosing to belong to them.
No Discrimination: AKH recognizes and respects the cultural differences found in the world. We will favor Business Partners who ensure that no employee shall be subject to any discrimination in employment, including hiring, salary, benefits, advancement, discipline, termination, or retirement, on the basis of gender, race, religion, age (other than normal hiring or retirement limitations), disability, sexual orientation, nationality, political opinion, union participation, social or ethnic origin or membership in any legal organization. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of knowledge, skill, efficiency, and ability to do the job and meet its requirements.
Health and Safety: AKH will only utilize Business Partners who provide safe and healthy work environments for their employees. Factories producing Lenny merchandise shall provide adequate first aid supplies, fire exits and safety equipment, well-lit workstations, clean restrooms and ensure that all are well maintained and in good working order. Worker housing, where provided by the Business Partner, must meet a reasonable standard of health and safety.
Compensation and Benefits: AKH will seek Business Partners who share our commitment to the betterment of wage and benefit levels that address the basic needs of workers and their families so far as possible and appropriate in light of national economic conditions. Manufacturers shall fairly compensate their employees by providing wages and benefits which are in compliance with the local and national laws and regulations of the jurisdictions in which the Manufacturers are doing business, or which are consistent with the prevailing local standards in the countries, if the prevailing local standards are higher.
Hours of Work/Overtime: Business Partners shall maintain reasonable employee work hours in compliance with local standards and applicable national laws of the countries in which Business Partners are doing business. In the absence of exceptional circumstances, AKH will favor Business Partners who utilize less than a sixty-hour work week and not those who, on a regularly scheduled basis, require employees to work in excess of a sixty-hour workweek. Where this is not established at a lower level by local laws, AKH defines a standard workweek to be not more than 48 hours and considers all hours in excess of this amount to be overtime, whether mandatory or not. Business Partners are required to compensate employees for overtime hours including such premium rates as are legally required in the country of manufacture, or in those countries where such laws do not exist, at a rate at least equal to their regular hourly compensation rate. Unless exceptional circumstances exist, employees should be permitted at least one day off in every seven-day period, and leave privileges.
Regular employment is provided: Obligations to employees under social security laws and regulations arising from the regular employment relationship shall not be avoided through the use of labor-only contracting, sub-contracting, or home- working arrangements, or through apprenticeship schemes where there is no real intent to impart skills or provide regular employment, nor shall any obligations to be avoided through the excessive use of fixed term contract of employment.
Environmental Requirements: AKH will favor Business Partners who conduct their business using progressive environmental practices and take active steps to preserve and protect the well-being of the environment. All Business Partners must adhere to all applicable environmental laws and regulations regarding the protection and preservation of the environment in their country.
Management System: Top management shall define the company’s policy for social accountability and labor conditions to ensure.
Documentation System: The existence of certain documents is often legally required, and provides evidence for the Company with respect to the correctness of the information given.
This standard in fully abide by the National laws and regulations
and based on the international standards.