To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that Med İlaç Teva reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, 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 share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Tahsin Yüksel
General Manager
Teva Turkey

Teva participates in the UN Global Compact
(UNGC), and publishes an annual progress update
available online. Six of the ten UNGC principles
focus on human rights.
These are (along with Teva’s response):
• Businesses should support and respect
the protection of internationally proclaimed
human rights and Businesses should make
sure they are not complicit in human rights
abuses: Our Code of Business Conduct states
that each employee should respect the rights
of and deal fairly with our customers, suppliers,
competitors and other employees.
• Upholding freedom of association and
effective recognition of the right to
collective bargaining: We believe in the right
to earn a living wage and respect the right
of employees to form associations freely and
to engage in collective bargaining. We maintain
positive relations with employee representative
groups across all our sites.
• Eliminating all forms of forced and
compulsory labor: We strongly support the
elimination all forms of forced labor. All Teva
employees around the world are employed
of their own free will.
• Abolishing child labor: Due to the nature of
our business, the likelihood of child labor in
any of Teva’s operations around the world,
including the operations of first-tier suppliers,
is effectively impossible (employees working
on our products must be trained researchers).
Nevertheless, we strongly support the
elimination of child labor in any form.
• Eliminating discrimination in respect
of employment and occupation: Teva recruits
employees without discrimination on the basis
of race, religion, sex, personal status, sexual
orientation, country of origin, age or disability
and requires this policy to be implemented
globally.

Our Approach
People are at the core of our business. We help
hundreds of millions of patients every day through
the efforts of our workforce around the world.
Our approach of putting people first includes our
employees; we seek to nurture passionate,
high-performing individuals, guided by a shared
set of values.
To realize Teva’s vision we are implementing
advanced people management practices to attract,
develop and retain value-driven people and
establish a high-performing work environment
worldwide. We take pride in offering highly
competitive, comprehensive and affordable benefit
plans, a commitment to continual employee
development and an attractive work environment
that promotes diversity and inclusion, safety and
health.
About Teva
Our patients Our employees
We work hard to recruit the most talented people
while reinforcing the culture and values that make
Teva a great place to work. Teva respects the rights
of employees to freely form associations and
engage in collective bargaining. We maintain
fair-minded and collaborative relations with
employee representative bodies everywhere we
operate. In 2012, we employed 45,948 workers
around the world.