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NOURISHING WORKFORCE








                                                                                                                                          The program has been designed
                                                                                                                                          to be carried out over a span of 14
                                                                                                                                          months with an objective to improve
                                                                                                                                          health-related knowledge of low-
                                                                                                                                          income women and men workers,
                                                                                                                                          increase the uptake of health services
                                                                                                                                          and products as a positive behavior
                                                                                                                                          change, and grow the capacity of
                                                                                                                                          factory management to implement
                                                                                                                                          effective trainings in the workplace
                                                                                                                                          in areas including Nutrition, Maternal
                                                                                                                                          Health, Birth Spacing, Aids &
                                                                                                                                          Hepatitis, Drug Abuse & Diseases,
                                                                                                                                          and Common Disease. It will also
                                                                                                                                          enable the partner supplier to
                                                                                                                                          demonstrate business benefits for   or belief, color or nationality. It’s a
                                                                                                                                          investing in workforce well-being.  21,000+ strong team with diverse   Grievance Handling
            Management Trainee               FairTrade USA                     Improving Workers                                                                           talent and over 15 nationalities across   Standard Operating Procedures for
            Officers Program                                                   Well-being Program                                         Workers’ Right                   various locations.                Grievance Handling are in place and
                                             Ensuring sustainable livelihoods
                                             for our workers has always been a                                                            to Freedom of                                                      special positions of Management
            Every year, Interloop inducts fresh   foremost priority for us. During the   Interloop in consultation with its                                                Interloop aims to provide all     Representatives have been created at
            graduates, 50% females, across   reporting year, our Hosiery Division   prestigious customer Stichd, initiated                Association                      employees a safe and supportive   all plants who are always accessible
            various functions through the    II received the Fair Trade USA    the ‘Improving Workers Well-being’                                                          work environment, free of         to every employee for handling any
            Management Trainee Officers      certification, becoming the First Sock   (IWWB) program’, in 2019, being                     Interloop respects the workers’   discrimination and harassment and   grievance or complaint regarding
            Program. The one-year working    Facility in the world to be FTUSA   run by Levi’s at its selected supplier                   right to freedom of association and   equal opportunities to grow, learn   work, working environment, welfare,
            contract exposes MTOs to a variety   certified. Fair Trade certification is a   sites. HANDS with its CSO partner             awareness sessions are carried out in   and develop on merit. The policies,   & discipline, etc. Management
            of operational and strategic roles.   further endorsement of our rigorous   BSR/HER (Health Enables Return); a                this reference as a general practice.   procedures, and practices of the   Representatives frequently visit shop
            After final evaluation, successful   standards for health and safety,   global public-private partnership, is                 Worker’s Management Council is   company have been formulated to   floors and offices, encouraging
            MTOs are offered permanent jobs as   working conditions and fair wages,   the implementing partner in Pakistan                actively working at all Interloop plants.   inculcate the culture of encouraging   employees to identify any potential
            per availability. During the year, 56   and scaling it to all Interloop plants will   for the IWWB program which is being     During the year, 93% of workers were   and supporting women, transgender,   barriers to a conducive working
            fresh graduates have been inducted   be a top priority for us.     implemented at Plant 2 & 4, Interloop                      covered under collective bargaining   and differently abled employees,   environment. They are skilled
            through Management Trainee Officers                                Industrial Park, Faisalabad.                               agreement. We also encourage our   equally. During the year, no incident of   communicators, helping employees
            Program.                                                                                                                      suppliers to respect the workers’   non-discrimination was reported.   excel in their professional & personal
                                                                                                                                          right to freedom of association as                                 lives.
            Special Welfare Fund                                                                                                          per applicable laws and conventions.
                                                                                                                                          During the year, no supplier was
            for Non-Executives                                                                                                            identified where the workers’ right to
                                                                                                                                          freedom of association was at risk.
            Interloop has set-up an additional
            welfare fund for non-executive                                                                                                Equality & Diversity
            employees and is supporting them
            for marriages, children scholarships,
            critical illness or death, and any other                                                                                      Interloop is an equal opportunity
            sudden requirements.                                                                                                          employer and is committed to
                                                                                                                                          promoting equality, diversity and fair
                                                                                                                                          treatment in all areas of employment.
                                                                                                                                          It provides an inclusive environment
                                                                                                                                          where everyone feels valued and
                                                                                                                                          respected, irrespective of age, gender,
                                                                                                                                          race, marital status, disability, religion


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