InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – To qualify the target 22% of female representatives in manager level, Cargill Tropical Palm has done many things to realize it, for instance, the first, by confirming that female workers would get good and equal access to escalate their skills and better position.
The second, make sure that there is no gender discrimination in recruitment process. The third, in 2020, the company recruited the first female as estate manager in palm oil industries. “She is in charge to manage 2.200 hectares of the plantations within more than 100 workers,” Group Sustainability Lead, Cargill Tropical Palm, Yunita Widiastuti said.
About reproduction rights protection or maternity, Yunita told that the company has lists of relevant policy/documents, such as, memorandum of understanding between stakeholders and Serikat Pekerja Seluruh Indonesia, policy about Female Workers’ Reproduction Rights. “Establish operational standard to chemist weeds control and anti-discrimination and abuse policy,” she said in a Webinar Focus Group Discussion (FGD) Sawit Berkelanjutan Vol. 6 with the theme “Ketangkasan Perempuan Sawit Indonesia” in Jakarta, April 2021 that InfoSAWIT & RSPO conducted.
To improve the female workers’ performance, Cargill has done risk assessment for every worker namely the female, establish operational standard for every workers, provide self-protection tool for every worker, and launched ‘see, forbid, and stop every work that is not safe’ policy.
The company also did public inspection and audit both internally and externally about the implementation of the regulation/policy of the company and work condition.
Cargill built recovery building for female workers such as, 28 clinics, 22 daycares, and 80 professional health workers. Implement medical check-up for the workers that have something to do with chemical materials, health facilitation, vaccination, medicine. Every rupiah for the workers was paid by Health Insurance and health sector.
“We do provide pregnancy service and birth service in the clinic of the company, have call center to complain and report issues about female workers, and ethics open line,” Yunita said. (T2)
