Delta Electronics Received "Learning Center, Happy Job, Happy Life with Breastfeeding" Award from the Ministry

August 25, 2016- Delta Electronics (Thailand) PCL. was presented the "Learning Center, Happy Job, Happy Life with Breastfeeding" award which is only given to top five companies that had been assessed and qualified by the Ministry of Public Health. The award was jointly organized by the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Labour, Thai Breastfeeding Center Foundation, Thai Health Promotion Foundation and UNICEF Thailand.

The award serves as motivation for companies to provide support for working mothers to combine breastfeeding and work. Some expectations include allowing female employees access to a workplace lactation room and breastfeeding breaks. Such support shall empower working women to combine work with breastfeeding which will benefit the child in many aspects, the mother, the businesses, and therefore Thailand as a whole.

"Learning Center, Happy Job, Happy life with Breastfeeding" is this year’s award theme. Regardless of the award, Delta has been participating in the breastfeeding initiative by Thai Breastfeeding Center Foundation and the Ministry of Labour since 2008 as the company sees the aforementioned benefits.

Delta had received the Breastfeeding Pioneer Organization Award in 2009 from the Thai Breastfeeding Center Foundation. In the past, the foundation focused only on mother and child care groups. Subsequently, it had become an advocacy organization and consulting center for companies which focus on many aspects of employees’ mental and physical well-being. In general, the foundation covers five main areas of healthy life (nutrition, clean air, excretion, emotion and physical activities), economic stability, community, sociability and work-life balance consisting of career opportunities and income; welfare coverage; freedom to express ideas; recognition; family stability; self-development; justice; gender equality.

Delta Thailand has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the foundation on November 24, 2015. The company has complied with the required standards for their breastfeeding initiative.