Anti-Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Policy

Effective: 20 January 2020

Overview

This policy sets out Skylink’s position against human trafficking and modern slavery.

Skylink Network has a strong focus on its purpose and sense of social responsibility and ensures we speak out on the issues that impact our clients, employees, and organization. This policy assesses and addresses anti-modern slavery laws in our own business, and we expect organizations with whom we work also to adopt and enforce policies to comply with the legislation. Collaboration with our employees, suppliers, and clients is the key to achieving this.

Scope

This policy applies to everyone who works at Skylink Network in any capacity, full-time, part-time, or casual, including temporary employees and contractors.

Principles

Skylink Network respects ethical labor practices and values and promotes diversity and complies with local and international laws of worldwide labor standards - ILO Codes of Practice, consistent with strong sets of principles.

Skylink Network has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery in its operations or supply chain management business activity. Modern slavery encompasses servitude, forced labor, debt bondage, and human trafficking.

All employees, contractors, and sub-contractors must not engage in any practices of modern slavery or human trafficking. This includes:

• Using dishonest or bullying practices during recruitment or employment, including misrepresentations of the terms and conditions of employment.
• Procuring commercial sex acts.
• Denying access to an employee’s documents (for example, identity, passports, immigration, drivers’ licenses, etc.), including but not limited to destroying, confiscating, concealing, and so-on.
• Providing or arranging housing not satisfactorily meeting national housing and safety standards.
• Employing minors (aged 18 or less) or using forced labor.
• Failing to provide an employee contract, recruitment agreement, or other required work document in writing (where one is required by law).
• Working with recruiters or suppliers that do not comply with local labor laws.

Responsibility

The Anti-Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Policy shall be implemented by the Compliance Administrator or Designated Personnel to maintain security measurements set out within the Skylink Network.

Compliance and Review

The Administration is responsible for establishing, overseeing, and assessing achievement against measurable objectives in relation to goals set out in this policy.

The Group’s Human Resources and Compliance Department is responsible for all other objectives and initiatives set out in this policy.

Infringement of this Policy

Skylink network has a long-standing commitment to conduct our business in compliance with all applicable local and international laws and regulations and in accordance with the highest ethical business principles and any violations of the policy will lead to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal of personnel/contract cancellation.

Further Information

For further information, contact with the Human Resources Department or Compliance Administrator.