OUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY

The Abalıoğlu Holding considers that carrying out all its activities with a social responsibility sense is one of the essential and unchangeable elements of its management approach as a part of the value it attaches on human. Our business purpose is to fulfill our responsibilities towards our stakeholders, the environment and the society with a sustainable growth. Within this framework, our responsibilities are becoming an important and integral part of our business ethics rapidly improving and increasing its efficiency every single day. We care for fulfilling our social and environmental responsibilities towards the society in all regions we operate in a harmonic collaboration with public, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders of ours. 
 
Our Responsibilities towards Employees: 
Working age is as stipulated by law and no child labor is allowed or supported. 
Workers are never made work under pressure in any respect. All workers are employed under equal conditions, with their consent and in appropriate positions. 
The Abalıoğlu Holding fulfills the legal requirements for health and safety of all its workers, takes necessary measures required to prevent any health or safety risk against personnel, and support training opportunities and development of its personnel and ensure occupational health and safety.
Workers have freedom of thought and belief and no one suffers discrimination because of their language, religion, race, sex, social class, age or association membership.
Work hours are arranged as set forth by law, no regular overwork is implemented and workers have one-day leave per week. 
Wages policy depends on knowledge and skills of our employees and there is no payment below minimum wage. 
The management listens to requests and complaints of all employees. Employees inform the management of their requests and complaints and then the management analyzes and concludes such requests or complaints. 
 
Our Responsibilities towards the Nature and the Environment:
We do not work to increase life quality of ours only but also people around us and these efforts are continuously improved. 
We participate in social projects at our own choice. We are volunteers spending time, energy and money for social projects. Our main target is to raise awareness of the public in the issues that are to contribute to people’s life quality and lead the society in this respect. 
We fulfill our social responsibility for prevention of environmental pollution and protection of the nature and raise awareness of our employees in this respect. 
The Abalıoğlu Holding takes control with social management and quality management systems and with a modern management system, and targets carrying out its activities with all its suppliers and business partners. 
We are people working voluntarily beyond protection and improvement of the nature and the environment and fulfillment of legal liabilities and we will spread this character of ours to other parts of the society. We manage any environmental effect that may arise from any kind of activity of ours responsibly. All our companies are liable for determining and conducting all kind of improvement and development activities to minimize environmental effects of their activities according to their area of activity. We expect our companies to implement the best environmental solutions beyond legal requirements and support all attempts that will help development and popularization of environment-friendly technologies and increase environmental consciousness. 
You can get further information on our environmental activities at www.docev.org.tr. 
 
Our Responsibility towards Shareholders: 
The Abalıoğlu Holding makes all decisions based on the known economic criteria, particularly attaching importance to their continuity, and in line with its target to add value to its shareholders, and ensure that their resources and assets are managed in the most efficient way with a financial discipline and accountability approach. 
Our Responsibility towards Customers:
We adopt a customer-oriented approach which is responsive to needs and requests of our customers in the soonest time possible and in the most accurate way. We provide our services in a timely manner and under conditions promised and we approach to our customers within the framework of respect, equality and courtesy. 
 
Our Legal Responsibility:
We are sensitive to traditions and cultural structure of Turkey and the countries we operate in and we act in accordance with all legal regulations.
Our Responsibility towards the Society:
We are a society that believes the importance of education in resolution of problems that the humanity has and works voluntarily and allocates sources to increase educational level of the young population of our country. 

Cafer Sadık Abalıoğlu Educational and Cultural Foundation is engaged in educational and cultural activities that will contribute to our national development, local development and maintenance of our cultural richness. You can get further information on our activities at www.csavakfi.org.tr.