Sustainability / Our People / Diversity

Diversity

Xstrata’s Sustainable Development policy states that we value diversity and we do not tolerate any form of workplace discrimination, bullying, harassment or physical assault.

Approach

Improving the diversity of our workforce supports our objective of enabling the best people to perform at their best at Xstrata and improves our strategic planning, decision making and operational performance by bringing together people with a range of viewpoints and backgrounds. We are proactive in promoting diversity in management and the wider workforce. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination, bullying, harassment or physical assault as set out in our Sustainable Development policy. Each site is required to implement an employee grievance mechanism to report and respond to workplace grievances fairly and systematically.

We provide an anonymous ‘Ethics Line’ for employees, contractors, suppliers, business partners or others to report issues anonymously, where these cannot be raised with line management directly.

Discrimination and harassment cases

In 2009, Xstrata’s businesses investigated nine cases of reported discrimination and/or harassment at our operations in Australia, Norway and South Africa. Seven related to bullying, one to sexual harassment and one to gender discrimination. All of the complaints were resolved to the satisfaction of the complainant or found to lack evidence or be without merit. Two of the complaints resulted in the dismissal of employees.

Last Modified on June 30 2010, 19:41:23 PST

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