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The Goldlink Code of Conduct for Social Responsibility applies to suppliers providing products and/or services to Zhejiang Goldlink Tech Co.,Ltd and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies. This code applies to all employees, including temporary workers, foreign workers, apprentices, contract workers, direct employees, and other types of staff.
This code consists of five sections: labor rights, health and safety, environmental protection, business ethics, and management systems.
1. Labor Standards
Goldlink and its suppliers must ensure that all employees are employed solely on a voluntary basis. No form of forced labor is permitted, and no form of slavery (including modern slavery), forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking, or prison labor is permitted. Suppliers must not restrict personal freedom, withhold identification documents, or engage in human trafficking, including transporting, harboring, recruiting, transferring, or receiving such labor or services through threats, coercion, force, abduction, or deception. Employees must not be required to pay deposits, recruitment fees, or other expenses to employers or agents.
1.2 Child Labor and Minor Workers
1. All applicable laws and regulations regarding minimum working age must be complied with, and the use of any form of child labor is prohibited.
2. The age of all employees must be effectively verified during recruitment, and minor workers under the age of 18 must not be engaged in work that may endanger their health or safety.
3. Student workers and apprentices must be protected in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Goldlink and its suppliers must comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding working hours and rest periods. All overtime must be voluntary. The standard workweek (excluding overtime) must be determined in accordance with the law but must not exceed 48 hours, and the total weekly working hours must not exceed 60 hours. Employees must have at least one day of rest after working six consecutive days.
1.4 Wages and Benefits
Goldlink and its suppliers shall pay employees wages in compliance with all applicable wage laws, including those related to minimum wage, overtime pay, and statutory benefits. Suppliers shall pay wages to employees in full and on time and provide clear and understandable pay stubs. Deductions from wages shall not be used as a disciplinary measure.
Goldlink and its suppliers shall not use violence, including but not limited to verbal abuse, threats, corporal punishment, sexual harassment, or physical coercion against employees. They shall not conduct illegal searches or searches by members of the opposite sex, nor threaten to carry out such actions.
Goldlink and its suppliers shall not discriminate against employees in hiring, compensation, promotion, rewards, training opportunities, termination, or other employment-related matters based on race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religious beliefs, political affiliation, membership in a union, protected genetic information, or marital status. Employees or prospective employees shall not be required to undergo medical tests or physical examinations that may have discriminatory purposes.
Goldlink and its suppliers shall respect the rights of all employees to voluntarily form and join unions, engage in collective bargaining and peaceful assembly, and refuse to participate in such activities, in accordance with local laws. Effective labor-management communication mechanisms shall be established to regularly communicate with employees or employee representatives. Employees and/or their representatives should be able to openly communicate with management regarding working conditions and management practices, and express their opinions and concerns without fear of discrimination, retaliation, threats, or harassment.
2. Health and Safety
Goldlink and its suppliers should provide a safe and healthy work environment and maintain this environment through systematic monitoring of employees' health status and work environment. Eliminate any working conditions that seriously endanger life or health, prevent major fire or explosion accidents, prevent fatal accidents at the workplace, and prevent diseases from occurring or being caused during work, such as collective infections resulting from infectious disease outbreaks.
1. Suppliers should obtain, maintain, and update all necessary health and safety permits and comply with the relevant provisions of these permits.
2. Goldlink and suppliers shall identify and assess potential health and safety risks (including fire, electrical and other energy hazards, industrial hygiene, physically demanding work, machine guarding, vehicles, and falls), and eliminate or reduce risks through hazard elimination, substitution, engineering controls, preventive maintenance, and safe work procedures (including lockout/tagout). Where necessary, appropriate personal protective equipment shall be provided. Additionally, appropriate measures should be taken to protect the safety and health of female workers, particularly pregnant and breastfeeding women.
3. Goldlink and its suppliers should establish necessary procedures and systems to prevent, manage, track, and report workplace injuries and illnesses, and implement corrective measures to eliminate impacts and assist employees in returning to work. Suppliers should allow employees to evacuate on their own when faced with imminent harm and should not require them to return until the situation has been resolved, without fear of retaliation.
4. Goldlink and its suppliers should provide appropriate health and safety training to employees in the local language and clearly post health and safety-related information in areas of the factory or other locations where employees can easily identify and access such information. Health information and training should include content tailored to specific risks for relevant groups, such as gender and age (where applicable).
Goldlink and its suppliers shall provide employees with clean restroom facilities and drinking water, and, when necessary, clean and hygienic food, storage, and dining facilities. Employee dormitories shall be kept clean and safe and provide reasonable living space.
Goldlink and its suppliers shall identify and assess potential emergencies and incidents, including but not limited to fires, explosions, fatal accidents, and mass poisoning, and implement emergency plans and response procedures, including: emergency reporting, on-site first aid, notification and evacuation procedures, regular training and drills, and recovery plans, to minimize the impact on personnel, the environment, and property.
3. Environmental Protection
Goldlink and its suppliers shall comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and customer requirements regarding prohibited or restricted substances, such as RoHS, and take effective measures to prohibit or restrict the use of specific substances in products and/or manufacturing processes.
3.2 Prevention of Environmental Pollution
Goldlink and its suppliers shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding pollutants (including wastewater, exhaust gases, and solid waste), including requirements related to manufacturing, transportation, storage, treatment, and emissions. They shall reduce or eliminate pollution at its source, prohibit the illegal discharge of toxic and harmful pollutants, and prevent noise pollution.
Goldlink and its suppliers shall identify, label, and manage chemicals, waste, and other materials that pose a hazard to humans or the environment, ensuring their safe handling, movement, storage, use, recycling, reuse, and disposal. Data on hazardous waste shall be tracked and recorded.
4. Business Ethics
Goldlink and its suppliers must prevent corruption and dishonest conduct, adhering to the principle of “no bribery, no gifts, no conflicts of interest, no fraud, no cost-cutting, no commercial fraud, and keeping promises,” known as the “Six No's and One Commitment.”
Goldlink and its suppliers must respect intellectual property rights and protect such rights, as well as customer information, when transferring technology, experience, knowledge, or information.
Goldlink and its suppliers must adhere to fair trade and competition standards.
Unless prohibited by law, procedures must be established to protect upstream suppliers and employee whistleblowers, ensuring the confidentiality and anonymity of their identities. Goldlink and its suppliers must establish communication procedures allowing employees to raise concerns without fear of retaliation.
Goldlink and its suppliers should take reasonable actions to conduct due diligence on the origin and supply chain of metals such as tantalum, tin, tungsten, gold, and cobalt contained in their products, and provide customers with the necessary due diligence information as required.
Goldlink and its suppliers shall commit to protecting the reasonable privacy expectations of all business-related parties, including suppliers, customers, consumers, and employees. Suppliers shall comply with privacy and information security laws and regulations when collecting, storing, processing, transmitting, and sharing personal information.
5. Management System Requirements
Goldlink and its suppliers commit to complying with at least applicable laws and regulations, industry standards, customer requirements, and the requirements of this Code, and to continuously improve.
Goldlink and its suppliers identify risks and opportunities related to their operations based on laws and regulations, industry standards, customer requirements, the requirements of this Code, and their own strategic needs, and implement appropriate control measures to minimize risks.
Senior managers of Goldlink and its suppliers should regularly review their own performance and that of their suppliers to ensure the suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of their management systems.
Zhejiang Goldlink Tech Co.,Ltd. reserves the right to interpret this Code.
