Sustainability Report 2020/21

Strategies and Management Committed to shaping a people-centred workplace culture, SHKP endeavours to attract, retain and capitalize on top talent. We offer competitive benefits, provide a safe and healthy work environment, and support our staff to enable them to thrive as a high-calibre team and deliver outstanding goods and services to our customers. At the Group level, different business units are in place to manage employment and labour topics. They also ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations on employment, diversity and inclusion, well-being, health and safety, and labour standards, including the Employment Ordinance and Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance. Our Human Resources Committee is in place to reinforce, refine and review human resources policies. Occupational Health and Safety Committees in our property management and construction arms monitor health and safety performance and mitigate any potential risks in daily operations. The Internal Affairs Department is responsible for employees’ well-being and formulates annual training plans pertaining to staff feedback. To meet and exceed common standards of business ethics and integrity, we communicate our standards and expectations for employees through respective policies and guidelines, via our Staff Handbook, Code of Conduct and Health and Safety Policy . In accordance with our corporate values, we support the international principles and guidance of the United Nations Global Compact, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. As stipulated in our policies, we strictly prohibit the employment of child or forced labour throughout our employment practices. Any case of employment of illegal or forced labour will be investigated and dealt with in accordance with respective policies set out by the Group. Above all, the policies provide the basis for the Group to meet and exceed standards of business ethics and integrity. Offering Opportunities for Talents To attract and retain talents, and maintain our market competitiveness, we offer attractive employee packages. We ensure the packages are linked to employees’ performance and contributions to SHKP. To nurture young talent, we partner with local educational institutions for campus recruitment, Summer Internship Programmes, Management Trainee Programmes, and Graduate Surveyor and Graduate Engineer Programmes. Under such schemes, on-the-job training, external learning opportunities, mentorship and professional qualification sponsorship are provided to equip local young talents with skills and knowledge. SHKP also collaborates with the Vocational Training Council to provide final- year engineering students from higher diploma programmes with internship opportunities, akin to graduate positions. This year, we took part in the HKSAR Government’s Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme, enabling fresh university graduates to explore career opportunities in the Group’s operations in GBA cities. Of the real estate developers in Hong Kong, we took the largest number of recruits from the scheme’s first batch of candidates. We appreciate and recognize employees’ superior performance with appraisals, career progressions and annual awards. The awards, presented by the deputy managing directors, include the Quality-Raising Suggestion Scheme, Work Safety Suggestion Scheme, Best Handover Quality Award, Safety Award Scheme and Long Service Award. In order to hear all voices of dissent, the Group has introduced a whistleblowing mechanism, employee suggestion boxes and regular opinion surveys. Employees can raise matters of concern such as suspected misconduct, malpractice, impropriety, fraud-related or safety-related matters of grave concern, without fear of retaliation or reprisal. Our whistleblowing mechanism and internal procedures ensure that we make every effort to protect whistleblowers’ identity and disclosures in a confidential and sensitive manner. Similar practices extend to our supply chain, please refer to the Value Created for Supply Chain section for details. Value Created for People Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited • Sustainability Report 2020/21 22