Human Rights
Approach and Policy
In all aspects of its corporate activities, the MCG Group respects the dignity and rights of all people, does not tolerate discrimination of any kind— whether by race, gender, religion, or other grounds—and strives to engage fairly and honestly with all stakeholders.
The Group conforms with international norms such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Global Compact, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and ISO 26000. We have established the Mitsubishi Chemical Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and the Global Policy on Respecting Human Rights, Employment and Labor following the Charter, as detailed guidelines demonstrating this conformity both internally and externally.
Group companies endeavor to comply with the laws and regulations of each country and best practices concerning human rights, and raise the satisfaction levels of employees. They also conduct appropriate value chain management in the course of expanding their sustainable business activities.
During human rights enlightenment activities, each group company sets policies and priority issues in an autonomous fashion. These activities are promoted through Groupwide collaboration as part of our activities aimed at becoming a corporate group that offers a pleasant work environment, makes employees motivated, is accepted by society, and has a highly developed awareness of human rights.
Structure
For information about the promotion structure for activities related to human rights, please see “Structure for implementing sustainability.”
Development of hotline and consultation system
The MCG Group has established a compliance hotline, for which the respective internal control promotion departments of MCG and its main operating companies or external lawyers serve as points of contact. Furthermore, Mitsubishi Chemical has appointed in-house “harassment counselors” and has a structure in place to receive consultation requests made and complaints filed in relation to harassment. In the event that any problem has been confirmed, we strive to take action and rectify the problem promptly.
Core Measures
Human Rights Due Diligence
Process to share the principle of respecting human rights
- Based on the concept of human rights due diligence, a process to identify, prevent, and mitigate adverse human rights impacts, we communicate with stakeholders to identify potential and actual adverse human rights impacts.
- We assess the identified potential and actual adverse human rights impacts and our corporate activities.
- We prevent and mitigate adverse human rights impacts and continuously track their effects through our corporate activities to realize KAITEKI.
- We report these activities to stakeholders using the proper channels.
Reducing the Risk of Human Rights Violations
As part of our Groupwide risk management activities, we conduct human rights due diligence to identify and assess human rights risks, systematically promote measures to reduce such risks, and verify said measures’ effectiveness. Our risk assessments and the details and effectiveness of our risk-reduction measures are widely shared internally. In addition to Groupwide measures, we address risks that are specific to the business operations of each organization and the regions in which they operate. The details, approaches, and standards of our measures are also shared with relevant stakeholders to ensure awareness of our commitment to human rights.
Respecting human rights is an important part of our internal control activities, and therefore we strive to reduce the risk of human rights violations through various means, such as incorporating the status of Group companies’ measures into our internal control assessments.
Major human rights risks and status of responses (implementation of human rights due diligence)
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Mitsubishi Chemical Initiatives
Mitsubishi Chemical and its group companies conduct purchasing and procurement activities that take human rights into consideration through various initiatives in order to realize a sustainable supply chain.
Examples
- Regularly check the status of business partners’ activities to ensure that there are no cases of child labor and forced labor along the supply chain
- Provide training on human rights for purchasing and procurement personnel
- Advance responsible mineral procurement
We have established and are steadily implementing a system for human rights due diligence along the supply chain to fulfill our corporate responsibility to respect human rights.
For details, please see Supply Chain Management.
