Diversity and Equal Opportunity Illovo actively promotes equal opportunity and fair treatment in employment through the elimination of unfair discrimination. The group encourages inclusiveness with regard to human resource practices, irrespective of race, gender, nationality or religious affiliation in an effort to promote global diversity in the workforce.
In South Africa, Illovo is committed to contributing to and promoting social transformation, most notably through the continued advancement of broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) issues. The group submitted the annual Employment Equity and Income Differential reports to the Department of Labour and the Employment Equity Commissioner, which details progress made with respect to the company’s Employment Equity Plan, a key pillar of its B-BBEE programme. Progress on employment equity continued to be monitored through a group central co-ordinating forum which includes representation from local consultative forums which operate at the various operations.
Relevant statistics in respect of designated employees, as defined in South African legislation, are shown in the table below. They generally reflect a good performance, particularly in the areas of representation in management ranks where designated groups now total 71% (2010: 62%) and internal promotions where these rose to 89% (2010: 71%).
| Representative areas | % designated | | | 2011 | 2010 | | Management level | 71 | 62 | | Skilled level | 90 | 90 | | Promotions (management/skilled) | 89 | 71 | | External recruitments (management/skilled) | 75 | 66 | | Promotions (all levels) | 95 | 90 | | External recruitments (all levels) | 91 | 87 | | Combined recruitments & promotions (all levels) | 93 | 88 | | Combined recruitments & promotions
(management/skilled) | 82 | 69 | | Skills development initiatives (permanent employees) | 85 | 88 | | Management trainees | 70 | 75 |
Overall focus continues to be given to designated appointments in the more senior levels of management.
Relative to the Codes of Good Practice on Black Economic Empowerment (the Codes), issued in terms of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003, for the year ended 31 March 2010, the company was audited by an accredited external verification agency and its rating was re-confirmed as a Level 5 Contributor, having attained an aggregate score of 60.71% (2009: 59.14%), comprising the component scores as reflected in the table below -
| Element | Score (%) | Maximum
possible score | | 2010 | 2009 | | Ownership equity | 4.69 | 6.88 | 20 | | Management control | 2.67 | 1.72 | 10 | | Employment equity | 8.51 | 7.26 | 10 | | Skills development | 6.27 | 5.24 | 20 | | Preferential procurement | 18.57 | 18.04 | 20 | | Enterprise development | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15 | | Socio-economic development | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5 | | Aggregate | 60.71 | 59.14 | 100 |
This rating earned Illovo a ranking of 87th place overall and 6th place in the recent Food Sector in the 2011 Financial Mail / Empowerdex Top Empowerment Companies report in South Africa.
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