44 FGV HOLDINGS BERHAD RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND UPHOLDING GOOD SOCIAL PRACTICES Health and Safety Requirements • Ensuring all workers are given personal protective equipment (PPE). • Ensuring all Occupational, Safety and Health (OSH)/PPE training materials have been reviewed for completeness, clarity and ease of understanding. The training of workers in the use of PPE and any chemicals must be done in their native languages. • Ensuring orientation sessions are conducted over two days due to additional communication materials. OSH training is done on-site and comprehensively after the arrival of workers as part of their field training. • Ensuring one to three months of field training depending on job scopes. Passports • Ensuring all passports are kept by the workers themselves. • Providing passport safety boxes and ensuring the keys are kept by the workers in all estates in Malaysia. Protection of Whistleblowers and Complainants • Embedding internal grievance mechanisms in the GSP. Pay and Working Conditions • Wages and Deductions; Wages and Productivity; Migrant Workers - Employment contracts have been reviewed together with all practices/processes/policies/procedures relating to wages/deductions and working/living conditions for all workers. - Ensuring non-discriminatory practices, decent living conditions, payslips for workers, RM4 subsidies for water usage per worker, RM6 subsidies for electricity per worker and RM200 for necessities for every new worker. - Appointing external consultants to develop a special labour policy. • Insurance and Medical Assistance - Ensuring all terms & benefits, communication and training have been translated into the relevant national languages of all workers. - Ensuring that transport to the nearest medical facilities is provided if an estate does not have a clinic. Workers’ Welfare and Human Rights FGV complies with the Workers’ Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 by providing a basic level of living standards for its workers. This is also in line with the RSPO’s initiative for workers’ welfare and human rights.
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