Executing the Basics

While our corporate responsibility (CR) reporting is focused on priority environmental, social and governance issues that emerged from our materiality exercise, we recognize that certain fundamental elements of our business also merit inclusion as part of our CR reporting. In this section, we provide a description of our corporate governance structure and approach, we review major employee relations elements at Merck, and we provide insights into our human rights approach and the ways in which we interact with our suppliers.

Corporate Governance and Accountability
Valuing Our Employees
Protecting and Promoting Human Rights
Managing Our External Suppliers

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Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA, and Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ, USA, are now one company. We have combined our global operations under the name Merck & Co., Inc. We are working to update our corporate responsibility Web site to reflect our new, combined, global organization.