Common practices are usual systems of doing things in a plantation or in any of its divisions that had prevailed for a long period of time. It may not be written anywhere as they are the common practices (the way of life/ “walame”) that are embedded in the cultures and sometimes differ from division to division of a plantation. Since introduction of collective agreements to plantation staff and workers, most of such practices prevailed in the past are being recognized practiced and recorded.

One such common practice is open door policy adopted by the management in dealing with grievances/requests of the employees or the community. Any of our employees or a member of the community could communicate with our managers / staff without barriers in order to resolve issues. This practice prevails on all plantations of our company. However, one of the dis-advantages with this system is the difficulty in recording all such communications for further evaluation on the management time spent or to verify the type of issues. We have therefore introduced an office log book to record at least some of the major issues for purpose of analysis on an annual basis.

Any changes to this policy will be at the discretion of the Board of Management of Lalan rubbers Pvt Ltd., in consultation with the relevant authorities.