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SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT OUR GOVERNANCE OUR NUMBERS OTHER INFORMATION

SDG 4.4
Increasing the number of youth
and adults who have relevant
skills, including technical
and vocational skills, for
employment, decent jobs and
entrepreneurship
SDG 8.6
Reducing the proportion of
youth not in employment,
education or training
SDG 8.8
Promoting safe and secure
working environments for all
workers
SDG 10.2
Empowering and promoting
inclusion of all, irrespective of
age, sex, disability, race and
SOCIAL
ethnicity

EMPLOYMENT

Total Number of Total Number of HQ Total Number of Branches Distributed
Employees Employees Employees RM240 million
2,139 1,011 1,128 in remuneration for
employees

Improving Workplace Benefits and Employee Wellbeing The Bank also worked closely with Ministry Health of Malaysia
(KKM) and other medical providers (PMCare, Health Junction
Our employees are essential assets, and we seek to create a
and clinics) during pandemic to update, report and get their
work environment that is inspiring, healthy and welcoming to
advice on COVID-19.
allow our employees to develop professionally and empower
them to work effectively in line with our mission. During the We also prioritise a safe and conducive work culture. Part of
pandemic, intensified focus was directed towards ensuring a the commitment in FY2021 was to arrange for immediate swab
safe and sanitary workplace for employees, towards ensuring tests when there were cases at the office. In some instances,
uninterrupted operations and delivery of reliable services we arranged for doctors to visit affected employees at their
to our stakeholders throughout the pandemic. Work from homes to conduct the test and check on their health condition.
home measures were swiftly adopted to ensure safe social The Bank also arranged for free vaccines and booster shots
distancing could be easily adopted at workplaces. The clear for those who had not completed their COVID-19 vaccination
communication and guidance on standard operating procedures requirements.
(SOPs) provided during the year proved effective as the Bank’s
infectivity rate was kept below 15% among the employees in
FY2021.