Respect for human rights
Harassment prevention in the workplace
COSEL respects the fundamental human rights of all people and endeavors to create workplaces free of discrimination based on gender, age, disability, or other status and of acts detrimental to individual dignity.
COSEL’s Standards for Voluntary Actions clearly state, “We will never commit sexual harassment in any way,” and “We will never engage in any behavior outside the proper scope of business that slanders the personality or violates the dignity of the person or commit harassment (power harassment) by taking advantage of a superior position of power.” We also maintain Rules on Prevention of Harassment and strive to prevent reoccurrence of past cases of harassment.
All employees are provided with anti-harassment education during the annual compliance education program to raise awareness of harassment throughout the organization.
Establishing contact points for consultation
COSEL has set up contact points to receive reports from employees and consultation on whether or not certain behavior violates laws and regulations. These contact points provide problem-solving services. In addition, our in-house rules require strict confidentiality and prohibit any disadvantageous treatment of those who have reported cases of harassment.
We continue strengthening our harassment reporting system by ensuring all employees are aware of the contact points and improving advisors’ skills.