Human Resources

Group companies recognize the central importance of human resources and believe that the key to the success of any business is the professional contribution of the people that work for it, in a climate of fairness and mutual trust. Group companies shall safeguard health and safety in the workplace and consider respect for workers' rights as fundamental to the business.
Working relationships are managed with a view to guaranteeing equal opportunities and promoting the professional development of each employee. (Article 6 of the Ethical Code ).

The sustainable management of Pirelli's internal community is developed from all possible angles, in line with the Principles and Values expressed in the Ethical Code, in the "Policy for Health, Safety, Environment and Social Responsibility" and in the "Equal Opportunities Statement" of the Group.

Since 2004 Pirelli identified the international standard SA8000® as the benchmark tool for assessing the consistency of the Group's conduct with the CSR principles specified therein.
This entails frequent performance assessment of local sustainability indicators.

Employee Statistics

Occupational Health, Safety and Hygiene

Diversity management

Selection, Training & Development

Dialogue

Company initiatives for the internal community

   

Sustainability training

The communication campaign to raise employee awareness of Sustainability issues that began in 2007 continued in 2008 with specific classroom training activities involving blue-collar and white-collar employees. The participating countries were the United States, Germany, Turkey, Romania, Egypt and Switzerland.

Completion of the training modules in the remaining countries where the Group has a presence is scheduled for 2009.
Training activities, which were led by local managers supported by CSR Referents, focused on the concept of sustainability, the internal and external competitive advantage stemming from being a CSR Company that integrates it in its growth strategy, review of all corporate policies, from the Ethical Code to the HSE&CSR Policy and Global Compact as a model for sustainability formally adopted by the Group. The analysis of stakeholders, the Company's approach to human rights and the environment completed the training, which was offered to employees on an interactive basis.

They were reminded of the importance of full operating collaboration to maintain Pirelli's high sustainability profile.
The contents of the presentations, which offered a uniform basis for training in the various countries, were defined by the corporate departments in view of disseminating business sustainability in a uniform way. Local managers were contacted in advance and their comments were obviously taken into consideration.
Training activities also included a post-training questionnaire so that the training experience could be tracked.

More info on Pirelli's Selection, Training & Development activities, as well as on the applied HR Policies can be found in the Careers section of this web-site