Common use of General context Clause in Contracts

General context. The expertise, development and motivation of its workforce are essential for the AXA Group in its quest to become a global industry benchmark. Because it is striving to help all employees develop their full potential, AXA intends to establish a strong corporate culture and a set of ethics both of which spring naturally from its values – professionalism, innovation, pragmatism, team spirit and integrity. The Group also intends to maintain constructive labour-management relations in every country in which it does business, and to do so with due respect for different national approaches to social dialogue. AXA has detailed its pledges to employees in a document entitled “AXA’s commitments”, which has been circulated throughout the workforce. Through these pledges it endeavours to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ a working environment in which AXA employees are treated with respect and in compliance with local regulations, as well as with codes and standards that apply outside purely national borders (among them the UN Declaration of Human Rights and ILO standards). These commitments apply to the AXA Group as a whole and it is up to each business unit to implement them in accordance with local customs and regulations. The principles reflect AXA’s determination to become “an employer of choice”.