Basic employee rights
As a responsible employer, Nornickel seeks to create comfortable living conditions for its employees, which is impossible without protecting basic human rights (right to life, liberty, security of person, privacy, and freedom of movement).
Right to security of the person and privacy
We have put in place a comprehensive system to manage corporate security, including transportation, internal, facility and economic security along with procurement and counterparty selection transparency.
As a major employer, Nornickel regularly collects and stores massive volumes of personal data. In line with our Personal Data Processing Policy, we protect personal data of our employees and ensure their privacy by arranging for anti-virus protection, preventing information leaks, controlling removable media and analysing security events. The Company has established and is expanding a network of analytical situation centres.
Our Information Security Management System is subject to regular independent audits, including but not limited to the audit for compliance with personal data protection requirements. The system complies with ISO/IEC 27001:2013. In 2022, the audit at four Nornickel sites proved the high efficiency of corporate security management processes. The external auditor noted the facilities’ high preparedness to new threats and challenges. The Company demonstrated risk control effectiveness and readiness for unexpected changes, confirming its ability to achieve goals related to securing production processes.
For more details, please see Nornickel’s 2022 Sustainability Report, Corporate Security section.
Occupational health ICMM PE 5.1, IRMA 3.2.4.1, ICMM PE 5.2
The Company provide for the regular health monitoring of personnel. Employees undergo compulsory pre-employment examinations, and regular and ad hoc medical check-ups. The Company also set up medical aid posts performing pre-shift and pre-trip check-ups and providing medical assistance to employees upon request.
Those who are involved in hazardous operations are subject to additional examinations held at least once in five years by occupational pathology centres or other organisations authorised to conduct pre-employment and regular check-ups. These serve to assess occupational health fitness and determine if the disease is job-related. The Company provides such employees with personal protective equipment, wash-off and decontaminating agents, foods, milk, and other equivalent food products for therapeutic purposes in compliance with the applicable Russian laws and corporate policies.
Employees can consult geneticists as part of specialised genome sequencing tests taken by 15,000 people in 2020–2022.
Making sure its employees and their families have an easy and quick access to quality healthcare is one of Nornickel's strategic goals to 2025. In the core regions of operation, we are running the Corporate Healthcare project to develop our own network of healthcare centres with the latest medical equipment and highly qualified professionals. They offer a full range of services (almost 250) rendered by medical professionals from across Russia.
In 2021, we launched the first corporate healthcare centre in Norilsk. The facility provides a variety of services focusing on Nornickel’s voluntary healthcare insurance programme. It is equipped in line with European standards and has a medical information system in place.
Key centres included into the approved Corporate Healthcare programme
Central outpatient facility
Talnakh
Central
Kayerkan
Dudinka
In 2022, we completed the first stage of the programme to upgrade the Company's healthcare facilities and medical examination rooms for pre-trip and pre-shift check-ups, with the primary care services put in place.
In addition to opening centres included in the approved Corporate Healthcare programme, we plan to do the following:
- develop small-scale healthcare departments in remote locations, such as Snezhnogorsk;
- create a Competence Centre for Corporate Healthcare;
- implement partnership projects to establish healthcare centres across our regions of operation to serve all local residents under the compulsory health insurance programme;
- carry on with the programme to upgrade the network of healthcare facilities and medical examination rooms for pre-trip and pre-shift check-ups;
- look into the option of introducing shared medical records.
All of the Company’s employees are covered by voluntary health insurance programmes. In addition, Nornickel enables its employees to insure one close relative at corporate rates. In 2022, we spent RUB 2,189 mln on VHI and personal accident insurance policies.
Our staff and their families can take advantage of discounted tours for health improvement and health resort treatment. In 2022, 25,587 people went on such tours, with the Zapolyarye Health Resort (Sochi) being the most popular destination. The Company compensates their employees an average of about 86% of the trip voucher cost.
New staff support programme
Nornickel provides support to relocating employees, helping them settle into a new home. This includes financial aid and reimbursement of relocation expenses, baggage fees and living costs for the first three years. The Company also pays a one-time relocation allowance to help employees adapt at the new place of work.
Nornickel regularly offers its employees – many of whom work beyond the Arctic Circle – a wide range of benefits and social care support to make their living comfortable.
In 2022, the Company launched the Employee Relocation programme to ensure comprehensive assistance to employees moving to another region, either as part of the same job or due to a change in job duties with their current employer or a different employer within the Group. The programme offers a dedicated relocation allowance.
For more details, please see the Labour Rights section.
Housing programmes
We operate a combined Our Home / My Home and Your Home housing programmes to help our employees acquire ready-for-living apartments on special terms across Russia. Since the programme launch, Nornickel employees have received 5,842 apartments in Moscow and Tver regions, Krasnodar Territory and Yaroslavl. In 2022, the Company allocated RUB 1,065 mln to its housing programmes.
In addition to housing programmes, there is a Corporate Social Subsidised Loan Programme aimed at providing interest-free loans to the Company’s employees to make a down payment and reimbursing a certain share of interest on their mortgage loan. Throughout its duration, 1,300 employees of the Company have benefited from subsidised loans.