IOI Corp. response
IOI is committed to safeguarding the rights and welfare of all our staff and workers. As mentioned in your report, we have appointed a Malaysian NGO, Tenaganita to review the labour and working conditions in our operations. Tenaganita will be visiting our operating units to conduct stakeholder engagements and to review our systems and processes. These visits are to follow up on our corrective measures and action plan that was published in December 2014 and also to conduct further investigations and verification with our workers to provide a gap analysis to allow IOI to identify areas for enhancement. Tenaganita’s review and visits are presently in progress and we expect some preliminary reports by May 2016. IOI welcome and appreciate all constructive feedback and comments especially when they are balanced and factual where all parties have been given an opportunity to response. We proactively strive to improve and enhance our systems and processes to raise our standards upon receiving valid information. As evident in our Sustainability Policy, IOI is fully committed to upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, furthermore, as a founding member of the RSPO we are in compliance with all the ratified ILO Conventions. We would, specifically, like to highlight the following issues concerning the rights and welfare of our workers...