Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
G4-EC6, Training and education G4-DMA, G4-LA9, G4-LA10
We are developing our environmental awareness programmes
to foster a continuous improvement culture that delivers
environmental sustainability. In 2015, environmental
awareness training was conducted in 89 out of the 197
countries where we operate, (reaching 3968 employees). We
plan to reach all countries of operation by 2016.
More than 4000 employees have successfully completed
our e-learning course this year, to enhance their knowledge
and learn how to apply environmentally sustainable business
practices. Our United Arab Emirates business won a 2015 prize
for the highest proportion of participants.
We held Environmental Sustainability Leadership workshops
in Australia, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, the
Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United
States and Venezuela. The one-and-a-half-day sessions enable
our employees to share best practices, improving their
understanding of the challenges and external pressures facing
our business. The course helps us promote environmentally
sustainable business practices, and helps our leaders apply policy
requirements in daily activities. In Dubai, Mexico, Switzerland and
Malaysia, 49 of our trainers have also received training.
Seven of our senior managers also had the opportunity to
attend the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability
Programme at Cambridge University this year.
Read more about our work to improve environmental
sustainability.
Helping tackle youth unemployment
According to the ILO 5 , the worldwide unemployment rate
among 15- to 24-year-olds is set to rise. It is currently almost
three times higher than the unemployment rate for adults and it
remains difficult for young people to find jobs in most countries.
Helping young people become better prepared to enter the
professional world and to improve their chances in a challenging
job market is one of the great public policy issues across the
world today. We have introduced specific commitments and
initiatives to focus our work with two aims – to recruit and
develop the next generation of Nestlé leaders and to help young
people with the transition from education to work.
In 2015, the initiative was rolled out globally.
Our commitment
Our objective
Roll out the Global Youth Initiative across
all our operations
By 2016 – Nestlé will offer 10 000 job opportunities and
10 000 traineeships or apprenticeships to young people
below 30 years of age in Europe, to help tackle
unemployment in this age group.
Number of young people hired below 30 years of age
in Europe
Goal by 2016: 10 000
2014: 7 690 2015: 6 049
Number of trainees hired below 30 years of age
in Europe
Goal by 2016: 10 000
2014: 4 142 2015: 4 037
Across Europe we have offered permanent and temporary
positions to 6049 young people, meeting our 2016 goal ahead
of time, and strengthened apprenticeships and traineeships.
We have organised 1756 readiness-for-work events (CV clinics,
events in unemployment offices during open days,
participation at job fares and company information lectures),
mobilising more than 5706 Nestlé employees. The Nestlé
needs YOUth programme was launched across our European
markets in 2013 in Athens, Greece, to deliver a mix of jobs,
apprenticeships and traineeship opportunities.
The programme has received recognition in France in 2015,
receiving Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility Awards
from LSA magazine in the Social Engagement category. We
were also delighted to learn that this year, Nestlé has moved
up in Europe’s Universum Student Surveys from Rank 11 to
Rank 9 in the category Europe’s Most Attractive Employers –
Business Student 2015. The results are based on the
responses of more than 168 000 undergraduate students.
Our North–South solidarity programme offers students
from southern European states the chance to take part in
operations’ apprenticeships or traineeships in other parts of
Europe. Opportunities are organised in conjunction with local
governments and employment offices. It enables young
people to receive in-depth technical training and language
training for their host country.
For example, we provide apprenticeship opportunities in the
Nescafé Dolce Gusto factory in Schwerin, Germany, to Spanish
students, who get practical and vocational training at the site
and the local vocational training at the school. The programme
runs in partnership with the local government of Catalonia,
Spain, the Employment Office and the Chamber of Commerce
and the EU’s EURES job portal.
5 World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015, ILO.
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