Human Rights Education and Internal Awareness Raising
The Group provides and makes known guidelines on human rights issues including discrimination, harassment, forced labor, and child labor, for the prevention of these issues. We also create opportunities for periodic training to ensure retention of human rights awareness.
JX Advanced Metals Group Compliance Regulation (Excerpt)
Prohibition of unjust discrimination
JX Advanced Metals Group companies and their officers and employees shall not discriminate in their business operations relating but not limited to hiring, salary, working hours, work conditions, and business terms due to reasons that include but are not limited to race, nationality, sex, age, religious belief, social status, or physical characteristics.
Prevention of harassment
JX Advanced Metals Group companies and their officers and employees shall work proactively to prevent sexual harassment (including gender harassment) and power harassment.
Protection of personal information
The JX Advanced Metals Group companies and their officers and employees shall comply with personal information protection laws, regulations, and internal rules, adequately of parties including but not limited to customers, business partners, and employees, and in situations where personal information needs to be managed for business purposes, manage it with the utmost care.
Prevention of child labor and forced labor
The JX Advanced Metals Group companies and their officers and employees shall not be involved with child labor or forced labor and shall work to help solve these issues.
Human Rights Education
Human Rights Training Materials
We provided human rights training to all Group employees in fiscal 2024 on human rights, DE&I, and harassment. This subject was chosen to deepen the multilayered understanding of human rights issues in line with the increasing importance of companies addressing such issues, which now extend along the entire supply chain.
We will continue our work to ensure an understanding of human rights concepts in our global business operations and to do business in consideration of human rights.
Human Rights Consultation and Remedies
The Group has established the JX Advanced Metals Group Hotline as an internal consultation service for human rights violations and other issues. Employees are able to anonymously use this hotline to discuss any issues related to human rights from those that may crop up on a day-to-day basis to significant infringements. The JX Advanced Metals Group Hotline reports the content of each case and the status of its response to the president of the Company and also reports on the overall operation of the hotline to the Board of Directors. Information about the JX Advanced Metals Group Hotline is posted on our intranet portal and disseminated through various training programs, including human rights training. No one using the Group hotline for consulting or reporting shall be subjected to disadvantageous treatment for its use. In regard to remedies, no restrictions have been made on resolving issues for consultation through external remedies, and therefore consulting parties may seek other remedies according to the legal system of the country in question.
We have also established the JX Advanced Metals Group Supplier Hotline and a Group website-based Help Desk as a consultation service available to external stakeholders, such as suppliers, suppliers' employees, and local residents. The hotline and Help Desk have been set up to offer a process for remediation and redress that can be accessed by stakeholders affected by acts of the Group that violate or may violate laws and regulations. All consultations are conducted on an anonymous basis. In addition, the Group will never treat an individual or their employer unfavorably for using these consultation services or reporting a concern.