Sustainability Report 2020/21

Alongside creating opportunities for women, we have shaped a family-friendly culture at work to support employees’ various roles and responsibilities in their families. Employees are entitled to fully paid maternity leave for 14 weeks or a full-pay paternity leave for up to five days, in excess of the legal requirements. We The SHKP Quality Academy tailors training and learning for different ranks according to personal and team-specific goals. To keep our talent up-to-date with industry trends, we earmark tailor-made resources for a range of training, which focuses on four major disciplines: • business and people management; • construction; • property management; and • personal development. We also sponsor programmes ranging from seminars and short courses to bachelor’s degrees and master’s programmes. Amid COVID-19, we leverage our e-training platform to deliver digital and virtual learning, allowing training anytime and anywhere. Our SHKP training library at the headquarters houses over a thousand printed books and hundreds of e-books, enabling employees of the Group to enrich themselves in many aspects. During the reporting year, we delivered more than 5,500 classes, seminars, webinars and online programmes. Since 2007, the People Development Academy (the Academy) established by Hong Yip has been accredited by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualification. The Academy provides training and courses equivalent to Level 1-3 under the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework, offering opportunities for staff to gain recognized qualifications and advance their careers. Under a Credit Accumulation and Transfer arrangement with tertiary institutions, Hong Yip guarantees its staff credit transfers without further needs to retake any programmes. Since our Academy’s establishment, more than 5,000 employees have successfully earned their respective qualifications. In recognition of its people development efforts, Hong Yip received the Employees Retraining Board (ERB) Manpower Development Scheme’s Excellence Award for Employers for a twelfth successive year. It also won the Grand Award at the Classified Post HR Appreciation Awards 2020, for HR Best Practice in the Training and Development Category. offer flexible working hour options for those with special needs to facilitate their family-work balance. For nursing mothers, we provide breastfeeding rooms in our workplaces to foster a mother-friendly culture. Social and recreational activities are regularly organized for employees and their families to enhance family relationships and parent-child interactions. Our comprehensive, family-friendly welfare and benefits schemes extend to the children of our employees, including financial support schemes and overseas exchange opportunities. For instance, the Group has since 2003 provided full scholarships for employees’ children to join AFS overseas exchange programmes. Our SHKP Group Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme enables talented secondary school graduates from underprivileged families to pursue undergraduate degrees. Since its launch, the programme has sponsored 95 children of employees. Unlocking Our People’s Potential To enhance our people, we provide different learning channels, including structured training programmes, a training library, job rotations, secondment opportunities and self-learning channels. Our Internal Affairs Department’s annual talent development plans are designed to refine individuals’ professionalism, skills, experience and performance. To encourage participation, we regularly update available training details to encourage our talents to participate in a variety of courses. • Hong Yip creates women-friendly job opportunities to encourage inclusion Value Created for People Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited • Sustainability Report 2020/21 24