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OUR PEOPLE STRATEGY
Our people strategy brings to life our philosophy that our colleagues are the key to our success. We focus on developing sustainable relationships by engaging leaders, prioritising employee wellbeing and implementing consistent and transparent two-way communication.
WORK SAFE. LIVE WELL. is our employee wellbeing programme. It focuses on physical safety, health and wellbeing and offering our colleagues an impressive employee bene ts package. This year’s Work Safe. Live Well. bene ts roadshow visited numerous locations across the country offering all
Lidl employees, as well as family, friends and customers, the opportunity to undergo free diabetes screening.
BENEFITS: Outstanding bene ts are a key part of the programme including an attractive pension, healthcare scheme, maternity and paternity top up, employee assistance programme, anniversary payments, tax savers, sabbatical leave, and the recently introduced paid
volunteer day.
INCREASED LIVING WAGE: We were the rst major retailer in Northern Ireland to introduce the living wage to each of our team members in 2015 and committed to the increased level in 2017. The living wage is an independently assessed and measured rate of income considered necessary to meet basic needs which is not always covered by the national minimum wage.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
870
We are proud to be partnered with The Prince’s Trust, and speci cally to support the ‘Get into Retail’ programme for the past 3 years. The programme targets 18 - 30 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds. Through this programme we have supported 103 young people, enabling them to gain retail experience and develop their employability skills.
We are committed to helping develop our local communities and closing the unemployment gap in Northern Ireland. Since we rst launched this programme, 65% of these young people who joined Lidl were offered employment contracts and 78% have remained with us as proud members our team. In 2017, 30 internships were provided, with a further 34 planned for 2018.
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LAUNCH OF
30 150 INTERNSHIPS TRAINING COURSES
2,100
diabeteS SCREENINGS
ACROSS IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND
SAFETY FORUMS
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