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HIGHLIGHTS
INTRO
ESG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Human Rights Management
and Diversity
Hankook Tire & Technology respects the human rights and
diversity of its employees and all its stakeholders, strives to
contribute to the creation of an inclusive society and has
zero tolerance for discrimination. Not only do we advance
human rights management through grievance handling and
human rights impact assessment, we also recruit and nurture
employees with disabilities and female employees to boost our
organizational diversity.
PRIORITY AREA
APPENDIX
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Human Rights Management
Human Rights Impact Assessment Process
Human Rights Impact Assessment Results
Grievance Committee
The human rights impact assessments that cover Hankook Tire
As a result of conducting human rights impact assessments
We have operated a grievance handling process since 2015 to
& Technology’s entire operations (Headquarters, domestic/
on 54 organizations, no significant human rights risks were
resolve employee grievances, prevent disputes in the workplace
overseas plants, R&D centers, and overseas subsidiaries and
identified. Still, we selected 18 organizations in need of
and build consensus between labor and management, creating a
offices) aim to protect human rights by identifying factors that
improvement to further advance human rights management
positive corporate culture in the process. Our employees are free
could pose an adverse impact on employees and/or stakeholders
and developed improvement plans. One issue, which posed a
to request improvement actions for discriminatory treatment,
through self-assessments. In 2021, we extended assessment
relatively greater need for improvement was the newly added
sexual harassment in the workplace, unjustified actions taken in
items and targets to broaden the scope of human rights
assessment item of ‘lack of regular cyber security checks’.
relation to parental leave, workplace harassment, or any other
management: we increased the number of assessment items
To address this, we will verify assessment results by region
personal grievances in their professional and personal life. The
from 56 to 62, and we brought in domestic team leaders as
(Korea, China, Europe, the Americas, etc.) and explore ways to
Grievance Committee and other equivalent channels are under
assessment managers to add to the pool of assessors who were
ensure that worksites in need of improvement meet or even
operation at major production subsidiaries in Korea and abroad,
each assigned to a respective worksite to collect more diverse
exceed the national-specific regulations. In particular, we will
and grievances are submitted through the e-mail address
feedback. As a result, we achieved a 100% response rate across
use assessment results to provide worksite-level improvement
dedicated to grievance handling at respective worksites without
54 organizations along the entirety of our operations.
guides to proactively support and encourage such efforts to
any required predetermined format. To improve our grievance
further upgrade our human rights management system.
mechanism process, we benchmarked other companies and
Ratio of worksites which participate in human rights impact
assessments (unit: %)
98.1
100
2020
2021
analyzed internal issues to identify necessary improvements in
Human Rights Impact Assessment Checklist
2020. We then made our grievance channels and the method
❶ Establishment of a human rights management system
improve our employees’ awareness of and accessibility to these
❷ Equal opportunity and non-discrimination
❸ Protection of freedom of association and collective bargaining
❹ Prohibition of forced labor
❺ Prohibition of child labor
❻ Protection of individual safety rights
❼ Protection of rights to occupational safety
❽ Responsible supply chain management
❾ Protection of human rights for indigenous peoples
❿ Protection of environmental rights
⓫ Protection of the human rights of consumers
in which they receive submissions available across the board to
channels.