Our aim is to create a workplace culture that is open and innovative, where everyone is treated with equality and understanding and is encouraged to learn from experience and obtain relevant skills through training and development.
Our employees are essential in helping us to create a successful business. In return, we want to offer our staff rewarding career opportunities. Over the past five years, our workforce has grown considerably and we now employ over 250 people. Our commitment to our employees was recognised in 2004, when we achieved Investors in People (IiP) accreditation. IiP is a national standard for the management of people and requires accredited organisations to develop their workforce to improve performance.
Our policy is always to provide suitably qualified, trained and experienced personnel. We, therefore, invest significant resource in training and development to ensure our employees are competent to undertake the roles they are performing.
Stobbarts:
- Seeks to create a workplace culture that is open and innovative, where everyone is both client focused and performance orientated
- Explains to employees the nature of our activities, business performance and the purpose of individual jobs
- Encourages employees at all levels to learn from experience and obtain relevant skills through training and development
- Ensures our employee benefit package is in line with market conditions and sustainable by our business performance
- Aims to provide secure jobs; however, recognising the changing nature of the business environment will plan recruitment responsibly and always inform employees, as far as we are able, on employment prospects
- Seeks to provide a clean, healthy and safe work environment in line with best practice
- Recruits and promotes employees on their suitability for the job, without discrimination
- Will look favourably on requests to work flexibly, subject to the needs of the business being met
- Has a procedure to deal with grievances and disputes
- Recognises the right of employees to be members of trades unions