Let us fight COVID-19 and come out of it stronger

Dear Stakeholders,

We at Jaffer Group take lot of pride in our partners, vendors, customers, and communities we have and continue to serve.  Health and Safety is one of our Core Values and we take it as our responsibility to ensure that nothing comes in between the safety of all our stakeholders when it comes to the way we conduct ourselves.

COVID-19 has been characterized as a pandemic by WHO and that calls for all Corporates to play their role in working towards flattening the curve of this highly contagious virus. At our end, we have taken all required measures for our employees and some of them are listed below:

1. Allowing all employees, where physical presence is not required, to work from home.
2. Ensuring that at every entry point, employees are screened and before they enter the premises, their hands are sanitized.
3. Disinfecting consistently every touch point in the office including lifts, doors, other metals and objects which are consistently touched.
4. Practicing social distancing and HR is tasked to monitor its conformance.
5. Allowing all employees over the age of 60 to stay at home and work remotely, and their physical presence requirements are shared and delegated to younger employees.
6.  Anyone with any symptoms related to COVID-19 is asked to self-quarantine and is blocked entry.  Where needed, the company will facilitate all necessary test and hospitalization needs.
7. All non-essential local and international business travel is curtailed.  All travel to top 10 most affected country is stopped immediately.
8. Disinfect all deliveries received at our premises.

While above measures are for employees, we also seek your support and full cooperation, as many of the measures will also affect our partners and stakeholders from visiting our place.

1. Please switch to online meetings, conference calls, remote ways of working as much as possible.
2. Only essential meetings in premises will be allowed and for that our Admin department will have to be informed beforehand.
3. Every individual entering our office will go through exactly same protocol for entry as all our employees.
4. Anyone with any symptoms of flu or virus will not be allowed entry in the premises.

We fully understand some of these measures may be tough and not something our people and our stakeholders are used to.  However, in tough times, it is important we adapt to new realities and ensure business continuity without compromising the health and safety of our people and communities around us.

We do apologize for any inconvenience these measures may cause, however, we are all in this together and only collectively we can beat this virus and its spread.

We would always be willing to learn new ways or approaches which can ensure further safety and be very open to any feedback on enforcement of existing measures.

We are all in this together.  Let us fight it and come out stronger from this pandemic together.

With very best regards,

Nasser N. S. Jaffer

Chairman – Jaffer Group of Companies