Employment Principles

As the Group operates across a number of business sectors in different environments it has a decentralised management structure, with employment policies designed to suit the needs of individual businesses.

However, each employing company is expected to comply with certain key principles in relation to its employment policy. These include:-

• To provide safe and healthy working conditions for all employees.
• To provide an open, challenging, rewarding and participative environment for all who work in the company.
• To utilise, through selection, development and training, the full talents, skills and abilities of all employees.
• To communicate the fullest possible understanding amongst employees of the goals, directions and performance of the company and its constituent parts.
• To provide compensation and benefits which reflect good current local practices and which reward collective and individual abilities and personal performance.
• To provide a working environment, development opportunities and incentives to promote team effort and commitment to the performance of the Group.