Employees
PEL employs approximately 6,000 people countrywide, from its Headquarters in Lahore, to nearly every region around the country. Including Sales offices, retailers and service providers, nearly ten thousand people help bring PEL to consumers everywhere. Every one of them is significant to PEL’s mission of bringing inspiration and innovation to every consumer in the world. PEL employees are typically active people who take full advantage of the fields, trails.

Does PEL use child labour?
(A hot and burning issue for manufacturing organizations)
PEL cares deeply about every individual who works on the products. Everyone wants to know that the home appliances they buy for their selves and their loved ones are made under safe and fair working conditions. PEL wants them to know that their company is doing everything possible to continually improve conditions in the factories that produce their products.
Because they recognize that they have a responsibility to make sure that the people who manufacture their products are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect, here are some of the actions PEL has taken:

1. PEL forbids child labor in factories that make PEL’s products. Their code of conduct and policies state that no new workers under 18 years of age are eligible in factories. The standards are similar to those in North America and meet or exceed that of international labor organizations.
2. PEL has raised cash wages for entry-level workers by 70 percent during the past 2 years. Jobs in PEL contract facilities provide opportunities to build a lifestyle and life skills that are not typically available in other wage-earning areas where their products are manufactured. Many PEL factories also provide housing, transportation, health care, and nutrition benefits.
3. PEL developed safe, water-based processes that have improved the air quality in their factories. They even shared this information with their competitors so that all workers, not just workers making PEL products, will benefit from these processes.
4. PEL started a program that aims to create better opportunities for people who make PEL products. They offer after-work education programs, including middle and high school equivalency courses, for workers in many PEL factories. By 2002, all PEL factories had offered such programs.
5. PEL realizes that there is still a great amount of work ahead and they encourage employees to follow their progress closely. PEL wants to continue to communicate with anyone who is concerned about these important issues.

Workers and factories
PEL products are manufactured in factories owned and operated by companies. Out-sourcing, as it is commonly called, is pervasive in our industry.
The Code of Conduct is a straightforward statement of values, intentions and expectations and is meant to guide decisions in product facilities. The existence of the Code, by itself, cannot ensure compliance. PEL directs contract factories to post the Code of Conduct visibly and in the appropriate local languages. The Code has been modified and updated over the years.
Code Leadership Standards
In 2002, PEL's Code Leadership Standards (CLS) began offering more detail than the Code of Conduct. The CLS helped provide a roadmap for identifying and addressing compliance issues among including 23 safety standards, 13 standards for management concerns (including labor issues), 9 standards for environmental regulations, and 6 health standards. The intent is to reduce potential misunderstanding in gray areas.
The Code of Conduct core standards are set forth below.
Forced Labor
The company does not use forced labor in any form prison, indentured, bonded or otherwise.
Child Labor
The company does not employ any person below the age of 18 to produce. The company does not employ any person below the age of 16 to produce, accessories or equipment. If at the time PEL production begins, the contractor employs people of the legal working age who are at least 15, that employment may continue, but the company will not hire any person going forward who is younger than the PEL or legal age limit, whichever is higher. To further ensure these age standards are complied with, the company does not use any form of homework for PEL production.
Compensation
The company provides each employee at least the minimum wage, or the prevailing industry wage, whichever is higher; provides each employee a clear, written accounting for every pay period; and does not deduct from employee pay for disciplinary infractions.
Benefits
The company provides each employee all legally mandated benefits.
Hours of Work/Overtime
The company complies with legally mandated work hours; uses overtime only when each employee is fully compensated according to local law; informs each employee at the time of hiring if mandatory overtime is a condition of employment; and on a regularly scheduled basis provides one day off in seven, and requires no more than 60 hours of work per week on a regularly scheduled basis, or complies with local limits if they are lower.
Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H)
From suppliers to factories to distributors and to retailers, PEL considers every member of their supply chain as partners in their business. As such, PEL've worked to achieve specific environmental, health and safety goals, beginning with a program called MESH (Management of Environment, Safety and Health).
Documentation and Inspection
The company maintains on file all documentation needed to demonstrate compliance with this Code of Conduct and required laws; agrees to make these documents available for PEL or its designated monitor; and agrees to submit to inspections with or without prior notice.
Currently, PEL has more than 10 people located around the country focusing exclusively on compliance issues in the supply chain as part of the company's sourcing division, making responsibility efforts a central and integral part of the business.
PEL’s employee rewards
PEL's mission for corporate responsibility is "to lead in corporate citizenship through programs that reflect caring for the world family of PEL, their teammates, their consumers, and those who provide services to PEL.
The water-base conversion and air quality results are encouraging, but the most important aspect of that work is to pinpoint areas in factories where improvements should be made.