AKWA by Pacico, Inc

Code of Conduct

 

AKWA has a long tradition of working in partnership with reputable contractors or factories who share our commitment to human rights and ethical standards of conduct. Our customers depend on the quality and value of our products and the underlying integrity of the workplaces, which produce them.

 

We are proud of our leadership in ensuring that our contractors or factories worldwide follow progressive policies. AKWA will not permit the goods we sell to be the product of unacceptable working conditions.

 

To maintain our commitment to these principles, AKWA has established a Workplace Code of Conduct. We will require that all our factories, contractors and their subcontractors adhere to this code of conduct as part of our contracting process. AKWA reserves the right to immediately terminate its relationship and to cancel all orders with any factories or contractors that does not fully comply with these standards. The Workplace Code of Conduct requires factories, contractors and their subcontractors to:

 

Provide a clean, safe and healthy work environment

Factories, contractors and their subcontractors must ensure that the workplace is in compliance with local health and safety laws and regulations and is clean and well lit.

 

Engage in Fair and Ethical employment practices

Child Labor:                   Factories, contractors and their subcontractors must comply with local child labor laws and regulations.

 

Wages and Hours:        The prevailing local wage and hour requirements must be met. Workers must be paid in accordance with local laws and regulations. Workers must be compensated at a rate at least equal to the prevailing local minimum wage, including piece rate workers.

 

Discrimination:               AKWA recognizes that cultural differences will exist between various people, we believe that people should be employed based upon their ability to perform a needed function not on the basis of personal beliefs or characteristics. Factories, contractors and subcontractors must also comply with the local anti-discrimination laws and regulations.

 

Prison/Forced Labor:      AKWA will not knowingly utilize or purchase materials and/or products manufactured by uncompensated prison workers. Every employee must be a voluntary worker. No employees can be made to work against their will or work as forced prison labor. All employees must be treated with respect and no employee will be subject to corporal punishment or coercion of any type.

 

Allow full access to facilities and records for compliance inspections

As a condition of doing business with AKWA,  each and every factory, contractor and their subcontractor must comply with this Code of Conduct, and must make their facilities available at all times for inspections by AKWA or independent inspection firms retained by AKWA .