Opportunity & Diversity
The Zumtobel Group considers it essential that all employees are treated fairly and with respect. We also apply this principle to third parties: customers, suppliers, dealers, business partners and competitors.
Intercultural and international diversity in the Zumtobel Group
The Zumtobel Group offers equal opportunities to all employees. The Zumtobel Group Code of Conduct states that the company will not tolerate any form of discrimination, whether on the basis of age, disability, marital status, gender, culture, national or ethnic origin, political opinion (in accordance with the UN Convention on Human Rights), race, religion, sexual orientation or social class. This principle applies equally in all our business relationships.
Our personnel decisions are based on performance and qualifications – in hiring, training, remuneration and promotions. The Zumtobel Group makes no distinction between female and male employees and always endeavours to hire employees locally.
We make an active effort to promote the diversity of the Group’s workforce, especially with a view to multiculturalism and internationality. In addition to the specific language courses offered by external partners at Zumtobel and Tridonic, Corporate Training offers a training module on intercultural diversity. Foreign assignments and job rotation support the internationalisation of the company and offer employees the opportunity to extend their personal and professional development beyond national boundaries.
The reintegration of employees who return to work after maternity protection and parental leave complies with legal requirements and in some cases goes a step further. For example, models that allow flexible working hours and working from home make it easier to balance career and family. Tridonic offers subsidised daycare for pre-school children at its main plant in Dornbirn.
Our personnel decisions are based on performance and qualifications – in hiring, training, remuneration and promotions. The Zumtobel Group makes no distinction between female and male employees and always endeavours to hire employees locally.
We make an active effort to promote the diversity of the Group’s workforce, especially with a view to multiculturalism and internationality. In addition to the specific language courses offered by external partners at Zumtobel and Tridonic, Corporate Training offers a training module on intercultural diversity. Foreign assignments and job rotation support the internationalisation of the company and offer employees the opportunity to extend their personal and professional development beyond national boundaries.
The reintegration of employees who return to work after maternity protection and parental leave complies with legal requirements and in some cases goes a step further. For example, models that allow flexible working hours and working from home make it easier to balance career and family. Tridonic offers subsidised daycare for pre-school children at its main plant in Dornbirn.
Job opportunities for young people with disabilities
The Zumtobel Group complies with the legal requirements for employing the disabled and endeavours to hire persons with disabilities when possible. This targeted integration and other support programmes for disabled persons help remove the barriers to joining the workforce. When we are not able to fill the quota for disabled employees at a specific facility, the Zumtobel Group pays the legally required fee.
As an expression of our commitment in this area, in 1989 the Lighting Segment launched a special initiative for the integration of young people with disabilities at the main plant in Dornbirn. Here we usually exceed the legal quota (1 in 25) for disabled employees. At present 35 employees with disabilities work in the Dornbirn lighting plant.
As part of the Zumtobel brand’s two-year career programme for persons with disabilities in Dornbirn, young people with disabilities are gradually introduced to the working environment of a production facility. This special job training helps prepare them for an independent career in the future. Every year four or five young people join the programme; since 1989, more than 70 have completed the training. Twenty of these young people subsequently took up permanent employment with the company.
As an expression of our commitment in this area, in 1989 the Lighting Segment launched a special initiative for the integration of young people with disabilities at the main plant in Dornbirn. Here we usually exceed the legal quota (1 in 25) for disabled employees. At present 35 employees with disabilities work in the Dornbirn lighting plant.
As part of the Zumtobel brand’s two-year career programme for persons with disabilities in Dornbirn, young people with disabilities are gradually introduced to the working environment of a production facility. This special job training helps prepare them for an independent career in the future. Every year four or five young people join the programme; since 1989, more than 70 have completed the training. Twenty of these young people subsequently took up permanent employment with the company.