COP 2017

Participant
Published
  • 08-Jan-2018
Time period
  • January 2017  –  January 2018
Format
  • Stand alone document – Basic COP Template
Differentiation Level
  • This COP qualifies for the Global Compact Active level
Self-assessment
  • Includes a CEO statement of continued support for the UN Global Compact and its ten principles
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Human Rights
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Labour
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Environment
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Anti-Corruption
  • Includes a measurement of outcomes
 
  • Statement of continued support by the Chief Executive Officer
  • Statement of the company's chief executive (CEO or equivalent) expressing continued support for the Global Compact and renewing the company's ongoing commitment to the initiative and its principles.

  • I am pleased to confirm that Oriental Resorts for Touristic Development reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labor, Environment and Anti- Corruption.

    In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to sharing this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communications.

    Also we will point out in this report our new CSR projects with cooperation of universities and foundations.

Human Rights
  • Assessment, policy and goals
  • Description of the relevance of human rights for the company (i.e. human rights risk-assessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on Human Rights.

  • Fighting Child Labor

    A very good and clear example of active actions taken toward the concept of protecting human rights in Oriental Resorts is the cancellation of a contractor’s contract that was hiring workers below allowed working age violating the principle of human right of no allowance of children work, as it will be mentioned in more details later in this report.

  • Implementation
  • Description of concrete actions to implement Human Rights policies, address Human Rights risks and respond to Human Rights violations.

  • No answer provided.
  • Measurement of outcomes
  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.

  • No answer provided.
Labour
  • Assessment, policy and goals
  • Description of the relevance of labour rights for the company (i.e. labour rights-related risks and opportunities). Description of written policies, public commitments and company goals on labour rights.

  • Promotion Plan

    Oriental Resorts apply annually its promotion plan and upon the request of employees, a work load measurement meeting is conducted by the Human Recourses department to measure the new tasks assigned to the staff and based on the appropriate recommendation is communicated to the Managing Director to take the necessary decision of promoting the selected staff.

    Employees’ Health Care

    As per Oriental Resorts last Communication on Progress Report, a new service provider is contracted which increased the coverage age of the insured members and provided a wider servide providers network to facilitate more reaching the service for all medically insured employees and their families and the insurance covering two family members of each employees is still applied.

    In addition to the previous implemented activities that are still in progress such as:

    • Oriental Resort Hotel Committee of Trustees

    • Monthly recreational programs for hotel staff

    • Freedom of workers to volunteer at any voluntary local community services

    Exit Plan

    Planning an exit strategy is the most commonly overlooked consideration of a business strategy, yet the exit strategy plays a key role in determining the strategic direction for the company. Good employees are hard to find and just as hard to keep. And while turnover is a natural phenomenon in every workplace, dealing with an unexpected employee exit effectively makes all the difference to all parties concerned.

    Comply with minimum wage standards

    Salary Surveys provide the necessary market data to build competitive pay structures for our organization and provide us with the information needed to ensure that packages offered by Oriental Resorts are competitive.

    Highlights of other initiatives in progress covering Labour principle:

    • Employees Development and Training
    • Social Insurance plan

  • Implementation
  • Description of concrete actions taken by the company to implement labour policies, address labour risks and respond to labour violations.

  • No answer provided.
  • Measurement of outcomes
  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.

  • No answer provided.
Environment
  • Assessment, policy and goals
  • Description of the relevance of environmental protection for the company (i.e. environmental risks and opportunities). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on environmental protection.

  • No answer provided.
  • Implementation
  • Description of concrete actions to implement environmental policies, address environmental risks and respond to environmental incidents.

  • LED Lamps instead of normal lamps

    Currently Oriental resort hotel is replacing the indoors normal lamps with LED lamps for saving more amounts of energy consumption and the same is planned to goes on with the landscape as well.

    New Irrigation System Using “Sprinklers”

    Oriental Resort hotel is planning to replace the normal irrigation system through the usual water hoses by new “Sprinklers” system to be surrounding the whole landscape for saving water consumption.

    Advanced Water Tabs and Showers

    In 2014 it is planned for Oriental hotel to Implement new flushes technique that will consume lesser amounts of water in all rooms’ bathrooms in addition to installing new beach showers that use advanced push technique that produces certain amounts of water each time in order to achieve less water consumption.

  • Measurement of outcomes
  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates environmental performance.

  • Beside the quick results achieved by implementing Suggestions and Complaints Box, and since that Oriental Resorts is a member in the Global Compact Initiative and has modifying and tailoring its work policies and strategies to adapt with the 10 principles of the Global Compact, therefore, the company remains in the monitoring and evaluation process of all applied policies and actions in Labor area with keeping an eye on two main indicators like leaves/absence and turnover and by next year, the company will be presenting more detailed statistics on achieved results using well-known measurement indices.

    Numerous beneficial and energy saving benefits have been achieved after implementing several environmental projects that cope with Global Compact Environment principles. More energy was saved by using solar energy for heating swimming pools as well as using the LED lamps instead of the normal lamps for saving more amounts of energy consumption.

Anti-Corruption
  • Assessment, policy and goals
  • Description of the relevance of anti-corruption for the company (i.e. anti-corruption risk-assessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on anti-corruption.

  • Oriental Resorts attended regularly the events and conferences organized by the Egyptian Junior Business Association (EJB) in collaboration with the UN Global Compact as part of the Siemens Integrity Initiative in which multiple top notched different speakers are invited each time to enhance the conference with the experience regarding the role of the private sector in fighting corruption. Additionally, Oriental Resorts is planning to be a member of the Integrity Network that is going to be formed by EJB.

  • Implementation
  • Description of concrete actions to implement anti-corruption policies, address anti-corruption risks and respond to incidents.

  • No answer provided.
  • Measurement of outcomes
  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates anti-corruption performance.

  • No answer provided.