In accordance with PDI’s Philosophy and the Company’s Business Ethics, employees must conform to the following Code of Conduct ;

1. Performance of duties

Employees must perform their duties with integrity and discipline in an industrious and ethical manner.

2. Company assets

Assets of the company must be used exclusively for company business or for purposes approved by management. Proper operation, care, and maintenance of assets are of prime importance. Causing the deterioration of assets or using them in a way that does not benefit the company undermines the welfare, security, and progress of the company. All employees are responsible for looking after company assets used in their functions and company assets in general and must report any associated problems observed to their superiors or to the relevant company unit.
The term “assets” encompasses tools, machinery, and equipment, factories, buildings, land, materials, and products of the company; all movable and immovable property; technology, processes, work systems, technical knowledge, data, documents, intellectual property, entitlement cards, inventories, and secrets.

3. Conflict of interest

Employees shall not commit any action that is in conflict of the interest of the company, that causes any losses to the company, or that diminishes the benefits accruable to the company, such as:
3.1 Doing anything that competes directly or indirectly with the company.
3.2 Offering to sell products or provide services to PDI; to be contractor of PDI or to act as agent or to work on behalf of any entity selling products or services to the company.
3.3 Having financial interest, whether stocks or entering into partnership with any entity competing with the company or that does business with the company, such as customers, agents, contractors, suppliers of goods or services, that may lead to favoritism to protect such interests.
Should an employee have received such interests, prior to employment with the company or after employment by inheritance or as gift, that individual must report such information to superiors.

4. Using company information for personal gain

Employees may not seek benefits for themselves or others by using or being construed by others as using company information in such cases as purchasing or selling shares prior to the announcement of operating results, or any other instance that may have an impact on the company’s share price; or purchasing or selling land or investing in businesses that are located in close proximity of a site where the company is about to establish or expand its premises.

5. Receiving financial or other benefits from entities or individuals doing business with the company

Employees may not demand, accept or agree to accept any money, or other benefits, from company customers, agents, traders, contractors, suppliers of goods and/or services, or from any entity or individual doing business with the company. In addition, employees cannot have any financial involvement with same, whether by joint investment, by trading, by lending/borrowing funds, by cashing cheques, by purchasing on credit, by any trading, or by any transaction, such as payments of rent or donations, nor accepting any other financial obligation.

6. Gifts

Employees may not accept gifts on traditional or other occasions of excessive value from individuals or entities doing business with the company, or from those who might benefit from the employees performing duties for the company. If employee has already received such a gift, or later learn that a gift is of excessive value, that person must report receiving such a gift to a superior promptly for proper disposition.
Employees must not give gifts to superiors nor accept gifts from subordinates.

7. Moonlighting

All employees are expected to dedicate their efforts full-time to the company. However, in the event that employees find it necessary to engage in other work, such work will:
7.1 Not be illegal, nor against socially acceptable norms.
7.2 Not damage the company’s reputation or business.
7.3 Not take place on company premises.
7.4 Not be done during working hours, except with permission and if such activities have no negative impact on the individual’s work.

8. Upholding the company’s reputation

Employees must avoid any activity that may potentially have a negative impact on the company’s reputation and should preserve their own good name in society and in the community where the company is located.

9. Exercising of political rights

Employees have a right to exercise personal choice in all political matters, such as voting or membership in political parties. However, employees must avoid actions that prejudice the company’s strict political neutrality, such as an employee becoming a member of the executive committee of a political party, or conspicuously supporting a party or particular candidates, or seeking political office.

10. Conduct toward those under one’s authority and one’s superiors

Employees with supervisory responsibility will pay due and appropriate attention to those reporting to them with respect to their work, their well-being, and their morale; listen to their opinions; and deport themselves in a manner that merits respect. All employees will show appropriate respect to their superiors.