ADM Shine Technologies Limited
We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.
The Armed Forces Covenant
An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families
The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.
Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.
This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.
Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant
1.1 We ADM Shine Technologies Limited will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment
2.1 ADM Shine Technologies Limited recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- Armed Forces Friendly
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- Flexible Leave For Spouses
- UK Reservists
- UK Cadets
- Armed Forces Day
- Reserve Forces Day
- Armed Forces Charities
- UK Wounded, Injured And Sick
We also pledge the following:
We will actively update all our careers, recruitment and related website pages to actively publicise our support to the armed forces. We will promote membership of the Reserve Forces within our graduate and general recruitment activity. We will seek to sponsor where possible, charities, museums and events that are relevant and appropriate in a respectful and supportive manner. We will seek to sponsor with the relevant family or estates blessing. via the Royal British Legion, remembrance day recognition for the fallen veterans and heroes of those in silent service of the country. We value and recognise military skills and qualifications as part of our core work and all documentation, and recognise such when interviewing for positions, We will work with the Career Transition Partnership to ensure our employment opportunities are made available to veterans We will engage with the Recovery Career Service to support as far as is practicable employment opportunities.for wounded, injured or sick veterans. Where practical, we will invite for interview all veteran applications who meet the selection criteria in a job application, We will participate in selected Career Fairs for those leaving the Armed Forces and will work with SaBRE to identify other means of promotion and engagement, We will attempt to find alternative employment within the business in another location if they need to move to accompany their spouse or partner. We will allow the use of company vehicles, where practical, to assist in any needed moves at no cost to the Service family. We will sympathetically review requests for holidays before, during and after a partner’s overseas deployment. when the Service person has leave to spend time with their family. We will consider special paid leave as appropriate for employees who are bereaved or whose spouse/partner fa injured. We will accommodate reservists ‘ training commitments whenever possible and we will strive to support these to ensure an effective Service. Through our own HR policy and Employees Handbook, we will provide up to 30 days per annum special paid leave in support of reservists’ training commitments. Through our own HR policy anti Employees Handbook, those reservists that are High Readiness Reserve (HRR) status, will he provided with up to 30 days per annum special paid leave in addition to the up to 30 days above, We will whenerer possible accommodate the mobilisation of our reservist in they are required to deploy, We will in accord to our own HR policy and Employee Handbook offer up to 100 days unpaid leave in any one year; hence we can accommodate and atively support the Service person’s Mobilisation of 4 to 11 months every 3 to 5 years and during which they will not lose any of our Employment Benefits over and above working hours, weekly development and their core salary during mobilisation. We will encourage any reservist in our business to participate in Uniform to Work Day, We will seek to support the Armed Forces with Cyber Warfare, Electronic Warfare, C-IEDD and other specialist trades /trained extensively at our expense], and where possible create experts for the country’s future needs, We will engage with Reserve Forces and Cadets Association to identify opportunities of support, assistance and facilities where appropriate. We will encourage our employees to hr cadet helpers or instructors, where practicable, Aiming to actively participate in Armed Forces Day; We will promote Armed Forces Day via our intranet and encourage our employees to participate in Armed Forces Day local events, We will promote our support and participation via our intranet and encourage employees as part of Armed Forres Day to reach out across the Fire and Rescue Service, The Police Service and the Ambulance Service our support for such local events
2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.