LG Group’s headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul (LG Elecs)
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s leading consumer electronics maker, said Sunday it has adopted human rights principles to avoid human rights violations within the company and its contracted companies.
LG Electronics has integrated existing human rights-related rules and strengthened them in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the company said in a statement.
The human rights principles ban discrimination, harassment, forced labor and child labor in workplaces, while stipulating violations in working hours, wages and welfare benefits, as well as artificial intelligence ethics.
(Yonhap)
