
CHILD LABOR
POLICY
Implemented
policies and procedures
Roban’s
Produzione undertakes not to utilize child labor (under 16) and, in the case of
an inclusion of young workers (under 18), it is committed to respect all
safeguards provided by the current regulations and by the SA8000 requirements
in terms of protecting young workers’ psychophysical development.
The
Directorate-General is directly involved in the human resources selection
procedures, and, through the Administration Office, it collects and checks the
documentation reporting the applicants’ age. The sole
possibilities for young workers to be included in the Company are those of
internships or “alternanza scuola-lavoro” (“work-related learning”). Such cases
are usually managed in the framework of school/university projects or altogether
with local job centers, and they are therefore guided by shared
educational/training projects aiming at enhancing the teenager’s growth path,
ensuring all the safeguards provided for.
Roban’s
Produzione srl combats child labor utilization through a careful selection of
its own suppliers and a cooperation with them in order to avoid any possible
child labor situation. During the selection procedures
regarding the most critical suppliers (e.g. external workshops), Roban’s makes
use of a work team composed of one of the Company’s owners, the Company’s
safety Manger and a labor consultant, in order to ascertain the absence of
eventual child labor situations, and inspect eventual situations of teen work.
The Company is committed to spread its own policy through awareness-raising
venues at the most critical suppliers’ (e.g. external workshops).
Should
Roban’s, throughout supplier selection and/or control processes, notice any
kind of child labor utilization, the Company itself will take action in order
to support the supplier defining proper remedial actions, such as, for example:
· Hiring a parent or relative to
replace the child/young worker
· Organizing the young worker’s
schedule in order not to interfere with school classes
· Provide financial aid to working
children/teenagers in order to let them attend school classes until the minimum
legal age for work
· Planning working activities in such
way that the total amount of working hours and school hours (including time to
go back and forth from work and school) does not exceed 10 hours per day
· Being sure that all possible
precautions have been taken in order to preserve the safeguard of children’s
(and young workers’) health and safety.
Roban’s
Produzione srl is committed to spread information about its own policy, to
workers as well as to other stakeholders.
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